Strategic Market Data Lead
Strategic Market Data Lead
This is a strategic, hands on, standalone role that blends market data vendor management, technical capability, and business engagement.
I need someone with Financial Service experience ideally Wealth Manager, below are the key components of the role
Market Data Vendor Oversight
- Identify and catalogue current market data feeds managed by business teams
- Engage business stakeholders to understand data needs.
- Assess overlapping vendor feeds
- Drive cost savings, synergies, and vendor consolidation where possible.
- Support decommissioning or renegotiation of feeds.
Procurement & Contractual Understanding
- Work closely with procurement teams.
- Understand contract obligations and typical market data vendor operating models.
- Technical & Data Capability
The role sits in the data department, so the candidate must be technically capable:
- Understand data architecture and how feeds land in Snowflake.
- Ability to run SQL queries, investigate data, and compare feeds.
- Familiarity with concepts like EDP, data lakes, ingestion of PDFs, etc.
- Should be able to use AI/tools to automate comparisons.
- Not reliant on data engineers/analysts for basic tasks.