Market Data Manager

Harrington Starr; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Harrington Starr is seeking an experienced Market Data Engineering Team Lead to drive strategy, architecture, and delivery of our enterprise market data platform. You will combine strong technical leadership with hands-on engineering, shaping scalable data solutions for pricing, analytics and risk across Trading, Risk and Quant teams.

You will define the market data engineering roadmap and own the platform’s operational stability, leading real-time streaming and batch processing while guiding

Qualifications

• Senior leader with hands-on architecture and delivery of enterprise market data platforms.
• Proven experience building scalable, high‑performing data pipelines and platforms.
• Strong Python development and data engineering practices guiding standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor Market Data Engineering team, while contributing to architecture decisions.
• Define and execute strategy and roadmap for market data engineering.
• Design a modern platform supporting real‑time streaming and batch processing.
• Drive a unified market data model to simplify vendor integrations and downstream consumption.
• Ensure BAU stability, incident management and continuous improvement.
• Coordinate integrations between market data platforms, ETRM systems and downstream applications.
• Partner with Quant, Trading and Risk to support pricing, analytics and risk models.
• Act as senior technical authority for market data architecture across the business.

Skills

Leadership

Market Data

Data Platforms

Python

ETL/ELT

Streaming

Batch processing

Zema

ETRM integration

Data quality

Tools

Zema

ETRM systems

Job description

I’m currently working with a leading global commodities trading organisation that is looking to hire an experienced Market Data Engineering Team Lead to drive the strategy, architecture, and delivery of its enterprise market data platform.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who combines strong technical leadership with hands‑on engineering expertise and a deep understanding of market data platforms. You’ll play a key role in shaping the future of market data services, working closely with Trading, Risk, Quant and Technology teams to build scalable, high-performance data solutions that support critical business functions.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead and mentor a high‑performing Market Data Engineering team while remaining technically involved in architecture and key engineering decisions.
• Define and execute the market data engineering strategy and technology roadmap.
• Design and deliver a modern market data platform supporting both real‑time streaming and batch data processing.
• Drive the development of a unified market data model to simplify vendor integrations and improve downstream data consumption.
• Own the operational stability of the market data platform, including BAU support, incident management and continuous improvement.
• Manage integrations between market data platforms, ETRM systems and downstream trading and risk applications.
• Partner with Quant Engineering, Trading and Risk teams to ensure market data supports pricing, analytics, valuation and risk models.
• Act as the senior technical authority for market data architecture and engineering across the business.

What we’re looking for

• Strong experience leading Market Data Engineering or Data Platform teams.
• Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise market data platforms.
• Deep understanding of market data ingestion, transformation and distribution across streaming and batch architectures.
• Experience building scalable, resilient and high‑performance data pipelines.
• Strong Python and data engineering background with the ability to guide engineering standards and review technical designs.
• Hands‑on experience managing platforms such as Zema and integrating them with ETRM systems.
• Strong knowledge of data quality, ETL/ELT processes and operational support models.
• Experience working with Quant, Trading and Risk teams.
• Previous experience within commodities trading, energy trading or financial services is highly desirable.

This is an opportunity to lead the evolution of a business-critical market data platform, influence enterprise architecture, and work alongside highly skilled engineering and quantitative teams within a fast‑paced trading environment.