Market Data Specialist, Metadata

Jane Street; London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent financial services firm in London is looking for a Market Data Specialist to enhance data quality and support the internal Security Management systems. The role requires effective communication skills and experience with financial data. Candidates should have programming knowledge and be comfortable in a Linux environment. This position emphasizes collaboration with developers and traders in a dynamic setting.

Qualifications

• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills required.
• Excellent written and interpersonal communication is crucial.
• Experience with financial instrument metadata preferred.

Responsibilities

• Investigate data quality and reliability issues.
• Interface with exchanges or data vendors to resolve issues.
• Help internal clients understand data better.

Skills

Debugging and troubleshooting

Communication skills

Financial instrument metadata

SQL knowledge

Linux/Unix experience

Organisational skills

Customer-centric experience

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

• 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

Qualifications

• 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