Description

You will act as the primary bridge between business stakeholders and engineering teams to define and implement market data requirements.

Responsibilities

• Gather and document market data requirements from trading, risk, operations, and compliance stakeholders.
• Translate business needs into detailed functional and technical specifications for engineering teams.
• Analyze vendor feeds from Bloomberg, Refinitiv, ICE, SIX, S&P, and exchanges to define ingestion logic and transformation rules.
• Collaborate with data engineers and architects to design market data ingestion and distribution workflows.
• Define and validate business rules for data cleansing, deduplication, and normalization.
• Maintain data dictionaries, business glossaries, and lineage documentation.
• Support UAT by working closely with QA and business users.

Required Skills

• 5+ years of experience as a Market Data Analyst or Business Analyst in financial services.
• Deep knowledge of market data vendors and feeds including Bloomberg (BDP, BVAL), Refinitiv, ICE, and SIX.
• Strong understanding of financial instruments: equities, fixed income, FX, and derivatives.
• Advanced SQL for complex querying, data exploration, and profiling.
• Proficiency in Python for data analysis, transformation scripting, and validation logic.
• Experience with Snowflake, including working with structured and semi-structured data.
• Hands-on experience with data formats such as CSV, XML, JSON, FIX, and FpML.
• Experience with API-based data access and version control using Git.
• Proficiency with collaboration tools including JIRA and Confluence.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Economics, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and cloud-native data services.
• Experience building or supporting a Market Data Hub, golden source, or enterprise reference data platform.
• Knowledge of data quality, lineage, and governance tools such as Collibra or Alation.

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degrees