Head of Market Data Development and Engineering

You will lead market-data strategy, engineering, acquisition, governance, and optimization for digital and traditional assets. You will develop low-latency data platforms and APIs, manage developers and vendors, ensure data quality and compliance, optimize costs, and support trading, research, risk, and production systems.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute a unified market-data strategy across centralized crypto exchanges, decentralized venues, and traditional markets
• Design scalable, low-latency architecture for tick-level, order-book, and on-chain data
• Lead developers and contribute hands-on Java development
• Design and build a Java-based market-data API and manage the market-data messaging bus
• Build relationships with exchanges, data aggregators, and node providers
• Ensure normalized, high-quality datasets and oversee real-time data ingestion
• Establish monitoring and alerting for data integrity and completeness
• Manage the global market-data budget and identify cost-saving opportunities
• Partner with infrastructure teams on resilient, scalable data pipelines
• Ensure compliance with licensing, redistribution, entitlement, audit, and governance requirements
• Build and lead a development team and establish data-lifecycle best practices
• Use AI tools to improve productivity, decision-making, and output quality

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience developing real-time market-data platforms at a trading firm, hedge fund, or financial institution
• Knowledge of market-data vendors, exchanges, and licensing models
• Understanding of trading workflows, asset classes, and real-time, reference, and historical data
• Experience with low-latency data systems, market-data feeds, APIs, and streaming technologies
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills

Benefits

• Hybrid or flexible working arrangements
• Flexible paid time off
• 3% 401(k) company contribution
• Company-paid health and protective benefits for employees, partners, and dependents
• Paid parental leave
• Family-planning benefits for US employees
• Free daily snacks and weekly breakfasts and lunches
• Employee Resource Groups
• Free coaching and counseling sessions through Headspace