Principal Data Engineer

Copper is a digital asset technology company dedicated to helping institutional investors safely acquire, trade, and store crypto assets.

Built and led by Dmitry Tokarev, a software and financial engineering specialist, the firm provides a comprehensive suite of custody, trading and settlement solutions that reduce counterparty risk and bring greater capital and operational efficiency to digital asset markets. At the heart of Copper's offering is Multi-Party Computation (MPC) technology – the gold standard in secure custody. Copper’s multi-award winning custody system is unique in that it can be connected to centralised exchanges, DeFi applications and even staking pools without the assets leaving the custody.

Built on top of this state-of-the-art custody, ClearLoop™ is the first solution in the market that overcomes a growing industry challenge; counterparty risk with exchanges. This solution underpins a full prime services offering, connecting global exchanges and enabling customers to trade and settle directly from the safety of their MPC-secured wallets. By reducing settlement time for transfers to a few milliseconds (without blockchain network dependency) and offering enhanced security measures, ClearLoop™ is rapidly reshaping the way asset managers trade and manage capital.

In addition to industry-leading security certifications, Copper has one of the strongest insurance coverages in the industry from an A+ rated insurer, positioning the firm as the partner of choice for institutions seeking to safeguard their assets.

Department environment

Copper is hiring for an ambitious individual to drive the growth of the BI Data function. Having established market-leading products with a large client base since our launch in 2018, we are now focused on the continued development of state-of-the-art Data and Analytics capabilities. We are looking for a candidate who is equally at ease with the operational aspects of the role as they are championing best practices to deliver the insights required to make data driven decisions. You will play a leading role in managing and expanding the data warehouse and BI visualisation capabilities supporting our data strategy. This is a key hire for Copper, with the potential to make a significant impact. You will have wide-ranging responsibilities to help us execute on our data strategy.

Key Responsibilities of the role

• Lead the advancement of our Data Warehousing Roadmap through prioritisation and resource allocation
• Develop BI technical architecture, build data models and strategic data services
• Engage key stakeholders to explain our capabilities, understand their requirements and manage key relationships through effective communication
• Promote tools adoption and deliver a strong data culture across the company, through relevant frameworks, processes, and training

Your experience, skills and knowledge

Essential

• Expert SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases
• Experience ingesting and manipulating a variety of data sources (Real time/batch data) and data formats (json/binary/csv)
• Data warehousing experience (knowledge of and experience with Kimball Dimensional, Data Vault and other related DW methodologies)
• Experience building and optimising pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows
• Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets
• Engineering best practices and standards

Desirable

• Team Leadership experience
• Experience with data warehouse software (e.g. Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift)
• Experience with data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc.
• Code versioning (Github integration and automation)
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python or R
• Working knowledge of message queuing and stream processing
• Experience with Apache Spark or Similar Technologies
• Experience with Agile and Scrum Technologies
• Familiarity with dbt and Airflow is an advantage
• Experience working in a start-up or scale up environment
• Experience working in the fields of financial technology, traditional financial services, or blockchain/cryptocurrency
• Data Management and governance experience

The benefits offered

• Holidays: 27 days per annum paid holiday, in addition to bank holidays
• Years of Service Days: Employees are awarded one additional day of paid time off per year of service (up to three years)
• Vitality Health:
  • Medical Insurance: Copper provides all employees with individual cover. Medical history is disregarded, and a 24/7 virtual GP is available (£100 excess per person per year)
  • Dental Insurance: Comprehensive dental cover for preventative, restorative and emergency treatment
  • Audiology Cover: Employees can claim back up 80% of costs, up to £300, for any hearing tests or hearing aids
  • Optical Cover: £500 optical cover (through Vision Express) or 80% reimbursement up to £300 for any other optician
  • Menopause Support: Unlimited support for those experiencing symptoms of the menopause, such as video consultations with a dedicated menopause practitioner
  • Vitality services also include an additional £100 for minor diagnostic tests and private prescriptions, including home diagnostics
  • Headspace - Copper's policy provides all employees with a free Headspace subscription. Headspace provides great resources to manage stress, improve sleep, meditate and enhance mindfulness
  • Discounts and free benefits - the Vitality programme has been designed for preventative care to encourage members to improve their overall health and will reward those for doing so. Employees can access additional benefits such as 50% off running shoes, discounted health screenings, 50% off at Nuffield Health or Virgin Active gyms and much more
• Home Working Energy Support Scheme: to combat energy prices increasing globally, Copper will provide you, in addition to your salary, with a monthly top-up of £60 or £75 (subject to your energy supplier)
• Pension up to 10% matched contribution to our company pension scheme via Smart Pensions
• Cycle to Work
• Life Insurance cover: Four times your base salary
• EAP: access unlimited mental health consultations and contact a 24/7 confidential helpline for emotional support
• Sponsored Learning and Development opportunities
• Regular company events and social activities

In return for everything you can bring to Copper, we can offer you an exciting, challenging role in a fast-growing and dynamic business, with career opportunities and welcoming working environment.

If you think you have everything we're looking for and more, then we'd love you to apply for the opportunity.

Copper is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and equal opportunities in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. So, bring us your experience, perspectives, and skills. It is in our differences that we will continue to grow and ensure Copper is transforming how institutional investors engage with digital assets. Copper is a Disability Confident Employer, please let us know if you have a disability. If you require us to provide any assistance during the recruitment process, then we would ask you to highlight this to us and we will be happy to accommodate.