Core Platform Market Data Business Analyst, SG

RecruiterPal; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

JERA Global Markets (JERAGM) is seeking a Market Data Business Analyst to lead governance for market prices, curves, and data sources within the DDH architecture. The role includes managing ZEMA data feeds, collaborating with FO and Risk teams, and driving data quality initiatives.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in ETRM/market data, strong SQL/Python skills, and experience with ZEMA, Endur, and related platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a numerate subject or equivalent professional qualification.
• At least 5-10 years’ experience as a Business Analyst in ETRM IT within a trading house, investment bank, or through a tier-1 vendor/consultancy.
• Experience with SQL, Python, Power BI.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain a market data management framework to support trading, risk, and analytics teams.
• Set up change control and data governance around ZEMA changes with FO, Quant Platform and MO teams.
• Run continuous improvement forums with users to improve market data strategy and governance.

Skills

SQL

Python

Power BI

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in a numerate subject

Tools

ZEMA

Endur

SUN

Job description

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

About the Company

The JERA Global Markets Group (JERAGM) is a leading utility backed energy trader. A joint venture between majority shareholder JERA Co., Inc. and EDF Trading Ltd, JERAGM’s shareholders are among the world’s major utilities.

JERAGM operates one of the most exciting energy portfolios in the world which gives it an in-depth understanding of the way local, regional and international energy markets behave. Its in-depth knowledge and market insights enable us to capture trading opportunities, optimise portfolios, create value and enhance security of supply for our customers.

Headquartered in Singapore, JERAGM has a global talent pool of about 400 people across offices located in five strategic locations: Singapore, the UK (London), Japan (Tokyo), the US (Houston) and Australia (Brisbane).

JERA Global Markets Pte. Ltd. is strongly capitalised with over US$500 million in paid up capital and has retained its AA Stable rating from R&I, attributable to a robust business model and solid financial base. JERAGM has a total equity of US$3.4 billion (as of 1 April 2025).

RESPONSIBILITIES

The JERAGM IT landscape is based on several vendor applications including Allegro Horizon, ZEMA, CubeLogic, IMOS/VESON and INFOR SUN. This also includes the in-house reporting and analytics data Lakehouse environment. In addition to JGM landscape, some systems (e.g. ZEMA, SUN, Cubelogic, Global Risk) are also an important part of GMJ landscape.

Additionally, JERAGM is implementing a data-centric technical architecture model, termed as the Digital & Data Hub (DDH), to enhance scalability and stability.

This role will be expected to provide market data interfaces within this architecture from core systems for existing and new use cases.

The market data business analyst will be responsible for taking ownership and managing strategy and governance for market price data (forward prices, settlement prices, FX/IR curves, correlations, volatilities, net back curves) for JERAGM. This will include market data management in ZEMA for JGM and GMJ.

Market Data Strategy & Governance

• Define and maintain a structured market data management framework to support trading, risk, and analytics teams.
• Setup and operate change control and data governance processes around ZEMA changes, working with stakeholders in FO, Quant Platform and MO teams.
• Run continuous improvement forums with users to improve market data strategy, management and governance in close collaboration with end users.
• Ensure compliance with market data licensing agreements.
• Maintain audit trails for market data usage/work with in-house teams to ensure usage of market data is in accordance with accepted policy.
• Work on optimal data source management and help manage costs.
• Work with cost controller in managing and onboarding new data contracts.

Data Quality & Standardization

• Manage data validation framework and processes to ensure accuracy, consistency, and completeness of market data.
• Standardize data formats and mappings for LNG, coal, power and freight pricing, indices, and trade flows.
• Manage master data, metadata, and symbology for structured and unstructured market data.

ZEMA Platform Management

• Maintain and administer ZEMA for market data ingestion, transformation, and reporting.
• Configure and optimize ZEMA data feeds, ensuring accurate and timely processing of LNG, coal, and freight market data.
• Develop and manage ZEMA reports, dashboards, and data queries for front-office and risk users.
• Implement automated alerts and data validation rules in ZEMA to identify anomalies in pricing and trade data.
• Coordinate with IT and business users to enhance ZEMA integration with ETRM systems (e.g., Endur, Allegro, SUN) and other internal systems.
• Oversee ZEMA support tickets being managed by GM IT Ops and act on behalf of users to chase up issues.
• Manage ZEMA performance, security access, and user permissions based on business requirements.
• Collaborate with traders and analysts to define business requirements for market data procurement.
• Integrate data feeds from exchanges, brokers, and third‑party vendors into ZEMA and downstream into trading and analytics platforms.
• Automate market data ingestion, transformation, and reporting using ZEMA.
• Support users in accessing, analysing, and reporting on data from ZEMA using python, excel, data platform, or BI tools, working closely with the Data Team to align on standard approaches.
• Optimize data storage, retrieval, and processing workflows to support real‑time analytics.

Stakeholder Collaboration & Support

• Liaise with business users and internal IT teams to ensure market data solution aligns with business needs.
• Build a good working knowledge of the markets, products and venues traded by JERAGM to enable effective conversations with GM users.
• Provide regular, business friendly updates to GM users when there are ZEMA changes or in follow up to major issues.
• Triage and route the broader non-market price data request (fundamental data, others) to data team business analysts.
• Liaise with ZEMA to manage platform, users, market data access.
• Work with cost controller to liaise with external market data vendors to manage market data subscriptions, contracts and renewals.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in numerate subject or equivalent professional qualification.
• At least 5-10 years’ experience as a Business Analyst in ETRM IT within a trading house, investment bank, or through a tier-1 vendor/consultancy.
• At least 5 years’ experience in commodity markets including 3+ years experience with market data.
• Experience as a Business Analyst on ETRM and ZEMA or other Market Data systems and related deal lifecycle systems.
• Experience of data analysis and tools including SQL, Python, Power BI.
• Experience presenting to and running engagement with business managers and senior stakeholders.
• Highly analytical with methodical approach, functionally strong with attention to detail and common sense.
• Adaptable with ability to work independently or in different types of teams.
• Ability to structure and drive work.
• Confident and effective communicator.
• Self-starter with delivery-mindset and staying power to work through challenges.
• Ability to work under pressure in a Trading environment.