Market Access Platform Engineer

Qube Research & Technologies; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading quantitative investment firm in London is seeking a candidate to join their Market Access team. The role focuses on development operations, project coordination, and requires familiarity with financial markets. The ideal candidate will have basic development and scripting skills, organized multitasking capabilities, and a proactive approach to tasks. This position promises a collaborative culture with a commitment to work-life balance.

Benefits

Healthy work-life balance initiatives

Diversity and inclusion programs

Qualifications

• Familiarity with financial markets and exchange data feeds.
• Basic development & scripting skills (e.g., Python or Bash).
• Attention to detail in documentation and task tracking.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and maintain market data pipelines.
• Act as a liaison across technical and trading teams.
• Coordinate with developers and infrastructure.

Skills

Familiarity with financial markets

Basic development & scripting skills

Organized and strong multitasking

Attention to detail

Proactive in driving initiatives

Experience with data

Exposure to C++ changes

Job description

Overview

QRT is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating across all liquid asset classes. We are a data- and technology-driven organization applying scientific methods to investing. Our collaborative culture and focus on innovation enable us to solve complex challenges and deliver high-quality returns for our investors.

The Market Access team builds and supports the systems that interface with markets, brokers, and data providers. These systems ensure QRT's trading strategies can access real-time market data and execute reliably. The team is critical to supporting the firm's growth and maintaining its technological edge.

Responsibilities

Basic Development Operations

• Simple development tasks involving small config changes / scripting / basic C++ changes etc
• Monitor and maintain market data pipelines (e.g., PCAP, PIDUMP, Reference Data).
• Investigate and resolve ad-hoc issues, replays, and backfills. Provide L3 support
• Support infrastructure tasks like estate ownership, on-demand setup of SIM/UAT & capacity planning
• Enhance our test suite and post deployment checks

Project Coordination & Execution

• Coordinate projects ranging from desk-driven requests and exchange-driven upgrades.
• Coordinate with developers, infrastructure, and vendors; track dependencies and deliver updates.
• Align internal teams to upcoming exchange or vendor changes.

Operational Stewardship

• Act as a liaison across technical and trading teams, ensuring efficient communication and issue resolution.
• Own release management, including PCRs, QC, documentation, and triage follow-ups.
• Maintain accurate documentation on data coverage, configurations, and workflows.
• Improve internal tooling and automation to streamline operations.

Some specializations:

• Data/Cloud Engineering: Automate pipeline QC, support ingestion infrastructure.
• Reliability/DevOps: Develop tooling and improve observability.
• Performance Engineering: Tune systems for latency-sensitive trading.

Your Present Skill Set:

• Familiarity with financial markets and exchange data feeds.
• Basic development & scripting skills (e.g., Python or Bash)
• Organized, with strong multitasking and communication skills.
• Attention to detail in documentation and task tracking.
• Proactive and able to drive initiatives to completion.
• Experience dealing with data is a plus
• Some exposure to simple C++ changes/deployment will be a huge plus

QRT is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome diversity as essential to our success. QRT empowers employees to work openly and respectfully to achieve collective success. In addition to professional achievement, we are offering initiatives and programs to enable employees achieve a healthy work-life balance.