Market Data Lead

Overview

This role involves defining and owning the market data strategy and roadmap for a TradFi program, including sourcing, licensing, integration, and governance across the data lifecycle. You will partner with product, legal, compliance, and engineering to support trading platforms and client-facing surfaces.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the market data strategy and roadmap for the TradFi program, including:
  • Identifying, evaluating, and prioritizing exchange and vendor data required for the next phase of TradFi products.
• Lead sourcing and commercial negotiations with exchanges, consolidators, and market data vendors:
  • Own licensing agreements (display / non-display, per-user, enterprise).
  • Own renewals and overall data spend.
• Drive end-to-end data integration with engineering, including:
  • Feed onboarding
  • Normalization
  • Symbology and reference data
  • Corporate actions
  • Distribution to trading and client-facing surfaces.
• Build governance across the data lifecycle:
  • Entitlements management
  • Data-quality monitoring
  • Lineage
  • Compliance with exchange usage policies and audit requirements.
• Partner with product, legal, and compliance on data licensing and redistribution terms as the TradFi roadmap expands into new products, markets, and regions.
• Maintain a live view of the market data landscape to ensure the stack remains best-in-class and cost-efficient:
  • New sources and vendors
  • Partnership models
  • Pricing.
• Build and mentor a small, growing market data team; establish operating cadence with product and engineering.
• Serve as an in-house expert on TradFi market data and market structure:
  • Translate exchange and vendor conventions for crypto-native teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum 6–10 years of market data or trading-technology experience at a global online brokerage, exchange, fintech, or market data vendor, with a track record of standing up or scaling market data for trading platforms.
• Deep knowledge of the market data ecosystem, including:
  • Exchange feeds and vendor products
  • Licensing and redistribution models
  • Entitlements
  • Exchange audit / compliance processes.
• Hands-on experience sourcing and integrating market data across one or more TradFi asset classes (equities, derivatives, commodities, fixed income, FX, indices) and regions.
• Solid understanding of market data technology and reference data:
  • Feed protocols
  • Normalization
  • Symbology standards
  • Corporate actions
  • Time-series distribution.
• Strong commercial and negotiation skills:
  • Experience owning vendor relationships and a data budget.
• Excellent stakeholder management across product, engineering, legal, and finance; able to move between technical and commercial discussions.
• Comfortable building from zero to one in a fast-paced, high-velocity environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience standing up a market data function at a brokerage launching new asset classes or entering new markets.
• Broad knowledge of the APAC, US, and European market data landscapes and exchange policies.
• Technical fluency (SQL / Python; familiarity with common feed protocols and data architectures).
• Familiarity with market data and trading products.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary and company benefits.

Location

• Remote-first, work-from-home arrangement (may vary depending on the nature of the role and team).