Senior Market Data Specialist (f/m/d)

Deutsche Börse AG; Frankfurt; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Deutsche Börse Group seeks a Senior Market Data Specialist to advise on external market data licensing and vendor governance. You will support eight business units with strategic sourcing, vendor management, and usage governance across real-time, delayed, and reference data.

In this role, you will work closely with the Group Chief Data Officer and Lead Market Data Management to help shape the enterprise data strategy, streamline sourcing, and drive cost efficiency while ensuring compliance and

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of market data management experience.
• Experience with licensing, contracts, and vendor governance.
• Strong negotiation and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to collaborate across legal, compliance and procurement.
• Familiarity with data governance and usage controls.

Responsibilities

• Drive global market data sourcing across real-time, delayed, and historical data.
• Manage relationships with exchanges, data vendors, and providers at senior levels.
• Negotiate complex vendor contracts and renewals; optimize commercial terms.
• Contribute to licensing and usage governance framework across entities.
• Collaborate with procurement, compliance, finance, and technology on risk and policy.
• Provide budgeting, cost analysis, and savings opportunities for market data.
• Lead data administration and reporting across central and decentral teams.

Skills

Market data licensing

Vendor contracts

Commercial oversight

Vendor governance

Stakeholder management

Negotiation

Job description

Your career at Deutsche Börse Group

Your area of work

As Senior Market Data Specialist for Deutsche Börse Group, you act as an expert and trusted advisor for external market data licensing, supporting the eight businesses units (SimCorp, ISS STOXX, EUREX, EEX, Deutsche Börse, 360T, Clearstream Securities Services and Fund Services) with strategic sourcing, vendor management, vendor negotiation, commercial oversight, and usage governance.

As part of section Group Data you work directly with the Group’s Chief Data Officer and the Head of Market Data Management in contributing to the enterprise data strategy by streamlining external market data sourcing, ingestion, and intragroup sharing. Group Data is led by the Group’s Chief Data Officer who drives the further buildout of the group-wide data mesh and data governance to improve access to high-quality, governed data for decision making, AI & automation, and commercialization. Data plays a key role in Deutsche Börse Group’s digital transformation as foundation for AI and digital business models.

Your responsibilities

• You drive global market data sourcing initiatives across real-time, delayed, historical, reference, index, ratings, alternative, and derived data. Ownership of market data licensing encompasses especially display, non-display, redistribution, derived data, index, benchmark, enterprise, application, and AI/model-related usage
• You manage strategic relationships with exchanges, data vendors, index providers, rating agencies, brokers, platforms, and other data suppliers, managing internal and external stakeholders up to management level
• You act as a key negotiator in complex vendor negotiations, renewals, commercial reviews, contract optimisation, audits, remediation and dispute resolution, and support translating business data requirements into appropriate sourcing, licensing and delivery solutions
• You directly contribute to establishing a global licensing and usage control framework across entities, locations, systems and business lines, ensuring usage aligns with vendor contracts, exchange policies, audit requirements, regulatory expectations, and internal governance standards
• You partner with procurement, compliance, finance, technology, and business stakeholders to manage licensing, commercial, and contractual risk – maintaining a clear view of vendor policy changes, exchange fee changes, regulatory developments, technology trends and emerging data usage models
• You provide commercial oversight of market data spend, including budgeting, forecasting, vendor cost analysis, renewal planning, savings opportunities and contract rationalisation. This includes reducing cost leakage, duplication and uncontrolled usage, while improving commercial terms and vendor governance
• You provide leadership and direction to central and decentral market data administration, inventory, entitlement, reporting, and data consuming teams, including where these teams have dotted-line reporting

Your profile

• You have at least 5 years of market data management experience within a bank, asset manager, hedge fund, trading firm, exchange, data vendor or financial services institution
• You possess strong understanding of market data licensing, vendor contracts, exchange policies, commercial models and consumption types, and good understanding of legal and contractual components, including licensing rights, audit provisions, liability, redistribution rights and termination provisions
• You combine profound commercial aptitude, including ability to manage cost, reduce risk, improve contractual outcomes and strengthen vendor governance, with strong relationship management skills across vendors and internal stakeholders, including business, technology, finance, compliance, and procurement
• You are experienced in operating across multiple business lines, legal entities, and jurisdictions and effectively collaborating across organizational boundaries, displaying a service-oriented mindset.
• You have a good understanding of market data governance, controls, usage monitoring, entitlement management, inventory management and reporting, and can effectively communicate to senior management, with the ability to simplify complex licensing, legal, commercial, technical and operational issues
• You are a strong and committed team player, with excellent organizational skills, ability to manage and adapt to change, strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail in high volume and high impact situations, and the ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines
• Financial market data licensing certification is a plus (e.g., FISD Data Licensing Specialist, Financial Information Associate, or equivalent)