Market Access Platform Lead: Data Pipelines & Reliability

quberesearchandtechnologies; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

QRT is seeking a Market Access Platform Lead to manage and develop the team responsible for the firm’s global market data platforms. You will combine people management, technical leadership and delivery ownership while collaborating with exchanges, vendors, traders and internal technology teams.

You will oversee reliability, data quality and scalability of market data pipelines, guide testing and observability, and drive improvements across capacity planning and deployment workflows.

Qualifications

• Proven experience directly managing a technical team with coaching and development.
• Strong experience supporting or engineering market access, market data or related production platforms in a trading environment.
• Hands-on Python or Bash development and scripting skills.
• Clear communication and judgement when working with traders, engineers and external providers.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of platform engineers with clear objectives and regular feedback.
• Coach team members, support recruitment and onboarding, and promote technical ownership and knowledge sharing.
• Prioritise team capacity across production support, project delivery and platform improvements.
• Own reliability, data quality and scalability of market data pipelines (PCAP, PIDUMP, reference data).
• Provide technical direction and contribute to configuration, scripting, tooling and troubleshooting.
• Oversee infrastructure ownership, environment provisioning and capacity planning.
• Improve testing, post-deployment validation, observability and platform performance.
• Lead desk requests, exchanges and vendor upgrades and manage dependencies and risks.

Skills

People management

Market data platforms

Python Bash scripting

Communication with traders

Platform reliability

Tools

C++ development

Data ingestion

Cloud engineering

DevOps

Job description

QRT is seeking a Market Access Platform Lead to manage and develop the team responsible for the firm’s global market data platforms. You will combine people management, technical leadership and delivery ownership while collaborating with exchanges, vendors, traders and internal technology teams.

You will oversee reliability, data quality and scalability of market data pipelines, guide testing and observability, and drive improvements across capacity planning and deployment workflows.