Principal Market Data Engineer

TP ICAP; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm is seeking an experienced Market Data Infrastructure Engineer in London. This role involves managing multi-vendor market data feeds and ensuring the stability of global infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have in-depth knowledge of market data platforms, strong Linux scripting skills, and excellent problem-solving abilities. A Bachelor's degree in a relevant field is required. This position offers a dynamic environment with opportunities for growth.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with Bloomberg BPIPE, EMRS, BLPAPI, Redline, Solace, TREP, ITRS Geneos.
• Admin knowledge of low-latency Linux hardware.
• Good understanding of Equity and Fixed Income markets.

Responsibilities

• Support and refine current Market Data Infrastructure.
• Quickly resolve issues in global production environments.
• Collaborate with internal and external teams to maintain infrastructure.

Skills

Market data infrastructures expertise

Linux scripting

Networking skills

Project management

Problem-solving skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS, MIS, engineering, or equivalent

Tools

RedHat Linux

Solace

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Role Overview

As a member of the Liquidnet Market Data team, you will be responsible for multi-vendor market data feeds, middleware / infrastructure, Solace appliance / messaging and data types including low latency market data infrastructure. This is a unique opportunity to work with the latest cutting‑edge technologies across major market data providers in the field today. The successful candidate will also support internal Product Support and Development Technology team with our applications.

We are seeking an experienced Market Data Infrastructure Engineer to help ensure stability and continued growth of our global infrastructure. The role requires hands‑on knowledge of various distributed market data platforms, with great Linux scripting, networking, and project management experience.

Role Responsibilities

• Support and continually refine current Market Data Infrastructure hardware and software packages / configurations / scripts.
• Quickly identify, communicate, and resolve issues in global production environments, maintaining functionality of the enterprise market data infrastructure 24x7x365, adhering to all policies and procedures.
• Diagnose all issues pertaining to the market data platform and escalating to the global Product Support teams when issues affect the production environment.
• Manage complex and large‑scale technical solutions, prioritising and multitasking to lead technical projects and complete them within defined timescales.
• Respond to and investigate infrastructure monitoring alerts in collaboration with internal Network, Linux and PS teams and external vendors.
• Work early or late (flexible shifts); the position involves being third‑level escalation 24/7, including after‑hours / weekend maintenance and implementation work.
• Collaborate with regional teams—Product Support, Linux, Network and Vendors in AMER, APAC and EMEA—to maintain the global Market Data Infrastructure.
• Work well in a dynamic demanding environment that follows ITIL processes and policies such as Incident Management, Change Management, Service Design and Service Operations while demonstrating a strong interest in emerging tools and technologies.
• Demonstrate excellent organisational, verbal interaction, writing and presentation skills.

Experience / Competences

Essential

• Strong in‑depth experience with market data infrastructures such as Bloomberg BPIPE, EMRS, BLPAPI, Redline, Solace, TREP, ITRS Geneos and Corvil.
• Bachelor's degree in CS, MIS, engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Admin knowledge of RedHat Linux hardware, including low‑latency / high‑throughput tuning, kernel and interface configurations, bash / perl / python scripting.
• Good understanding and firsthand experience of Solace Message VPN & Bridge setup, client profile and ACL setup, Solace failover, CLI & SolAdmin tool use and Solace event & system logs.
• Working knowledge & experience of network protocols (TCP / IP, UDP, multicast) and networking / connectivity troubleshooting skills.
• Good understanding of Equity and Fixed Income markets.
• Excellent problem‑solving skills within the Market Data and Solace environments.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Experience collaborating directly with vendors and exchanges.
• Proven project management skills.
• Ability to manage complex and large‑scale technical solutions.
• Motivated self‑starter who takes ownership of responsibilities and can work autonomously.
• Deeply analytical and disciplined approach to problem‑solving.
• Ability to confidently communicate at all stakeholder levels (technical, client, trader, etc.).
• Good organisational skills.
• Willingness to embrace core business values demonstrated by day‑to‑day work ethic.
• Team‑player willing to participate in new projects and help other departments.
• Flexible in relation to working hours.
• Positive approach.

Desired

• A considered approach toward automation.
• Experience in programming or scripting languages.
• Experience supporting message‑based architecture.
• AWS certification to ‘Cloud Practitioner’ level or above, or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of DevOps principles and practices, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (IaC) and automated testing.
• Experience with industry‑standard monitoring tools (ITRS or similar).
• Hands‑on experience with containerisation technologies such as Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
• Experience working within an ITIL framework, ideally with ITIL Foundation qualification.

Band & Level

• Manager / 7