Market Data Specialist, Metadata

Jane Street; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial services firm in London is seeking a Market Data Specialist to enhance data quality and support the security and corporate action systems. This role involves investigating data issues, working closely with clients, and configuring internal tools. The ideal candidate has strong debugging skills, experience in financial metadata, and familiarity with SQL and Linux environments. A collaborative and detail-oriented approach is crucial.

Qualifications

• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills.
• Experience with financial instrument metadata preferred.
• Programming experience in any language and knowledge of SQL.
• Confident in a Linux/Unix command-line environment.

Responsibilities

• Investigate data quality and reliability issues.
• Interface with exchanges or data vendors, raising and resolving issues.
• Help understand data better for internal clients.
• Advise on solutions and configuring internal services/tools.

Skills

Debugging

Troubleshooting

Communication

SQL

Customer support

Tools

Linux/Unix

Job description

We’re looking for a Market Data Specialist to join our Metadata team, working on improving and supporting our internal golden copy Security Master and Corporate Action Management systems. You’ll be responsible for configuring our systems to improve data quality, helping with data cleaning and validation, solving support issues for internal clients, and interfacing with our data providers.

You’ll be embedded into the Metadata Systems Engineering team and will work with software developers, traders, and operations professionals across the firm.

Responsibilities include:

• Investigating data quality and reliability issues
• Interfacing with exchanges or data vendors, raising, tracking, and resolving issues
• Helping us (the Metadata team and internal clients) understand our data better
• Potentially advising on solutions, e.g., changing monitoring
• Configuring internal services/tools and adding overrides

About You

• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills
• Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills
• Experience with financial instrument metadata, especially reference data preferred
• Programming experience in any language and knowledge of SQL or other database language(s)
• Confident in a Linux/Unix command-line-driven environment
• Responsible, organised, and great attention to detail
• Operations, support, and customer-centric experience a plus