Lead Market Data Developer - Commodities

Harvey Nash Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Part time

Job summary

A world-leading commodities firm in Greater London is seeking a Lead Market Data Developer to lead its market data development function. The role involves managing a team and overseeing the full lifecycle of market data solutions, focusing on ensuring data reliability for oil trading. Candidates should have strong experience in processing market data and building data management systems. This contract position offers £1,000-£1,200 per day with long-term engagement potential.

Benefits

Long-term engagement potential

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• Strong experience onboarding, processing, and distributing market data.
• Proven track record building market data or data management systems.
• Understanding of ETL/ELT workflows and data warehousing.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of market data developers.
• Act as SME for market data initiatives.
• Manage stakeholders on project goals and timelines.
• Own end-to-end project delivery.
• Build and enhance data parsers and ETL pipelines.
• Create and maintain complex commodity curves.
• Collaborate with vendors for seamless integration.
• Provide support for daily parsing and calculations.

Skills

Onboarding market data from multiple sources

Building market data components

ETL/ELT workflows

Clean and standardised code

Schema design

Docker and containerised environments

Tools

Zema

Docker

Job description

Lead Market Data Developer

Contract | £1,000-£1,200 per day | Outside IR35
London - 3 days per week onsite
World-Leading Commodities Firm

A world-leading commodities trading firm is seeking a Lead Market Data Developer to head up its market data development function. This is a high-impact role focused on building and enhancing a mission-critical Data Management System (DMS) that underpins market data reliability for a major global oil trading division.

You will lead a team of market data developers, own full lifecycle delivery of market data solutions, and act as the subject matter expert for curve development across the commodities oil business.

This is a strategic contract position reporting directly to the Head of Market Data.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of market data developers, driving a collaborative and high-performance culture.

• Act as the SME for market data initiatives, particularly around commodity oil curve development.

• Manage and align stakeholders on project goals, timelines, and outcomes.

• Own end-to‑end project delivery: requirements, design, development, and service deployment.

• Build and enhance data parsers, ETL pipelines, and distribution tooling under a standardised data model.

• Create, maintain, and remark complex commodity curves supporting trading, pricing, and risk.

• Collaborate with vendors and internal technology teams to ensure seamless feed integration.

• Provide second‑line support for daily parsing, calculations, and curve‑driven market data processes.

• Partner with exchanges, PRAs, and external market data providers to ensure accurate and timely delivery.

Skills & Experience

• Strong experience onboarding, processing, and distributing market data from multiple sources (API, file, scraping).

• Proven track record building market data or data management system components.

• Deep understanding of ETL/ELT workflows, data warehousing, and handling EOD/tick data.

• Strong engineering discipline - clean, testable, standardised code.

• Good knowledge of schema design and modern deployment/automation practices.

• Familiarity with Zema, Docker, and containerised environments is advantageous.

• Experience within commodities or financial‑services trading technology teams is highly desirable.

Contract Details

• £1,000 - £1,200 per day

• Outside IR35

• 3 days per week in London office

• Long‑term engagement potential with a world‑leading trading organisation