Market Data Engineering Lead

Jobs Web3; Harrow; Hybrid; GBP 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Company-paid health benefits

Free virtual coaching

Headspace coaching

Employee Resource Groups

Job summary

Galaxy Digital Inc. is seeking a Head of Market Data Development and Engineering to lead the creation, delivery, and governance of market data across crypto and traditional assets.

You will drive a unified data strategy, design scalable architecture, and build an API layer fronting multiple data sources while managing vendor relationships. You will oversee real-time ingestion, normalization, and monitoring, ensuring high quality data for trading, research, and risk systems.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in real-time market data platforms within a trading firm or financial institution.
• Knowledge of key market data vendors, exchanges, and licensing models.
• Strong understanding of trading workflows and data types (real-time, reference, historical).
• Experience with low-latency data systems, feeds, APIs, and streaming technologies.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills for technical and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute a unified market data strategy across centralized crypto exchanges, DEXs, and traditional markets.
• Design scalable, low-latency data architecture supporting tick-level, order book, and on-chain data.
• Lead a small development team and contribute hands-on development of Market Data API.
• Manage market data messaging bus used by internal applications.
• Build relationships with crypto exchanges, data aggregators, and node providers.
• Support vendor negotiations, licensing, and exchange agreements across crypto and traditional markets.
• Oversee data quality, normalization, and coverage across venues; establish monitoring for integrity.
• Identify cost-saving opportunities; implement chargeback models and usage tracking.
• Partner with infrastructure teams to enable data pipelines and resilient hybrid environments.
• Ensure regulatory compliance, governance policies, and data entitlement controls.
• Collaborate with trading, quantitative research, risk, and portfolio teams on data solutions.
• Lead and mentor the team to adopt AI-driven productivity improvements.

Skills

Market data

Low-latency

APIs

Data governance

Tools

Kdb+

DataBricks

Cloud & on-prem

Job description

Galaxy Digital Inc. is seeking a Head of Market Data Development and Engineering to lead the creation, delivery, and governance of market data across crypto and traditional assets.

You will drive a unified data strategy, design scalable architecture, and build an API layer fronting multiple data sources while managing vendor relationships. You will oversee real-time ingestion, normalization, and monitoring, ensuring high quality data for trading, research, and risk systems.