Full-Time Head of Market Data

Role OverviewWe are seeking a visionary and technically skilled Head of Market Data to lead the design, development, and evolution of our market data infrastructure. This individual will play a pivotal role in shaping our data architecture, ensuring the seamless acquisition, storage, and accessibility of high-quality historical market data for trading and research teams.

The ideal candidate is both a strategic leader and a hands-on expert, with deep knowledge of L1-3 exchange data and the ability to architect fast, scalable, and high-performance data solutions.

Job Description

1. Strategic Leadership
   • Define the vision and strategy for the company’s market data systems, ensuring alignment with trading and research objectives.
   • Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing market data engineering team.
2. Data Platform Architecture
   • Architect high-performance, scalable data platforms and lakes capable of managing large-scale historical market data, including data normalization and storage optimization.
   • Develop solutions for efficient user APIs, ensuring seamless access to data for backtesting, research, and analytics.
3. Historical Data Management
   • Oversee the design and maintenance of systems for acquiring, cleansing, and storing historical market data from exchanges, brokers, and data vendors.
   • Implement robust processes for data validation, normalization, and versioning to ensure accuracy and integrity.
   • Ensure the reconciliation of data changes, including handling corrections to past data and adapting to changes in exchange formats.
4. Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement
   • Partner closely with quantitative researchers, traders, and other stakeholders to understand data requirements and optimize systems for strategy development and backtesting.
   • Establish strong relationships with market data providers, ensuring robust integrations and consistent data availability.
   • Ensure market data solutions support exchange-traded options, cash equities, and futures, optimizing systems for these asset classes’ unique data requirements.
5. Operational Excellence
   • Drive the scalability and performance of data systems to accommodate growing data volumes and evolving organizational needs.
   • Optimize data storage costs while maintaining high levels of performance and reliability.
   • Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and support data retention and reporting audits.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Proven leadership experience in managing and developing market data systems.
• Hands-on expertise with L1-3 exchange data, including addressing challenges such as cleansing and normalization.
• Strong programming skills in Python and Go, or Rust.
• Deep knowledge of market data formats and APIs.
• Expertise in distributed data systems and ETL processes.
• Advanced proficiency in SQL.
• Extensive experience with Linux/Unix systems.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with unstructured datasets and alternate data sources.
• Proficiency with cloud storage platforms and cost-performance optimization.
• Familiarity with data governance and compliance standards.
• Knowledge of containerization and orchestration tools.
• Exposure to machine learning workflows.

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