Market Data Lead

Binance; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first work style

Competitive salary and benefits

Global team with learning and growth

Job summary

Binance is seeking a senior market data leader to define the strategy and roadmap for TradFi data. You will own licensing negotiations with exchanges and vendors, drive data integration with engineering, and build governance across the data lifecycle to ensure quality and compliance.

You will partner with product, legal, and compliance as the roadmap expands, maintaining visibility of the market data landscape to optimize costs and performance across multiple regions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum 6–10 years of market data or trading-technology experience at a global online brokerage, exchange, fintech, or market data vendor.
• Deep knowledge of the market data ecosystem: exchange feeds, licensing models, entitlements, and audit/compliance processes.
• Hands-on experience sourcing and integrating market data across TradFi asset classes and regions.
• Strong understanding of feed protocols, normalization, and time-series distribution; experience with vendor relationships and data budgets.
• Excellent stakeholder management across product, engineering, legal, and finance; capable of navigating technical and commercial discussions.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the market data strategy and roadmap for the TradFi program; identify and prioritize data needs for TradFi products.
• Lead sourcing and commercial negotiations with exchanges, consolidators, and market data vendors; own licensing agreements and renewals.
• Drive end-to-end data integration with engineering: onboarding, normalization, symbology, reference data, corporate actions, and distribution.
• Build governance across the data lifecycle: entitlements management, data-quality monitoring, lineage, and policy compliance.
• Partner with product, legal, and compliance on data licensing and redistribution terms as the roadmap expands.
• Maintain a live view of the market data landscape to keep the stack best-in-class and cost-efficient.
• Build and mentor a small market data team; establish cadence with product and engineering.
• Act as the in-house expert on TradFi market data and market structure for crypto-native teams.

Skills

Market data strategy

Vendor negotiations

Data integration

Stakeholder management

Technical fluency

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance / Economics / CS / Engineering

Tools

SQL

Python

Job description

Binance is a leading global blockchain ecosystem behind the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume and registered users. We are trusted by 300+ million people in 100+ countries for our industry-leading security, user fund transparency, trading engine speed, deep liquidity, and an unmatched portfolio of digital-asset products. Binance offerings range from trading and finance to education, research, payments, institutional services, and more. Our mission is to increase the freedom of money and financial access for people around the world.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the market data strategy and roadmap for the TradFi program: identify, evaluate, and prioritize the exchange and vendor data required for the next phase of TradFi products.
• Lead sourcing and commercial negotiations with exchanges, consolidators, and market data vendors; own licensing agreements (display / non-display, per-user, enterprise), renewals, and the overall data spend.
• Drive end-to-end data integration with engineering: feed onboarding, normalization, symbology and reference data, corporate actions, and distribution to trading and client-facing surfaces.
• Build governance across the data lifecycle: entitlements management, data-quality monitoring, lineage, and compliance with exchange usage policies and audit requirements.
• Partner with product, legal, and compliance on data licensing and redistribution terms as the TradFi roadmap expands into new products, markets, and regions.
• Maintain a live view of the market data landscape — new sources, vendors, partnership models, and pricing — to keep the stack best-in-class and cost-efficient.
• Build and mentor a small, growing market data team; establish the operating cadence with product and engineering.
• Act as the in-house expert on TradFi market data and market structure, translating exchange and vendor conventions for crypto-native teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.Minimum 6–10 years of market data or trading-technology experience at a global online brokerage, exchange, fintech, or market data vendor, with a track record of standing up or scaling market data for trading platforms.
• Deep knowledge of the market data ecosystem: exchange feeds and vendor products, licensing and redistribution models, entitlements, and exchange audit / compliance processes.
• Hands-on experience sourcing and integrating market data across one or more TradFi asset classes (equities, derivatives, commodities, fixed income, FX, indices) and regions.
• Solid understanding of market data technology and reference data: feed protocols, normalization, symbology standards, corporate actions, and time-series distribution.Strong commercial and negotiation skills; experience owning vendor relationships and a data budget.
• Excellent stakeholder management across product, engineering, legal, and finance; able to move fluently between technical and commercial conversations. Comfortable building from zero to one in a fast-paced, high-velocity environment.

Preferred Skills

• Experience standing up a market data function at a brokerage launching new asset classes or entering new markets.
• Broad knowledge of the APAC, US, and European market data landscapes and exchange policies.
• Technical fluency (SQL / Python; familiarity with common feed protocols and data architectures).
• Familiarity with market data and trading products.

Why Binance

• Shape the future of finance
• Collaborate with world-class talent in a user-centric global organization with a flat structure
• Tackle challenging projects in a fast-paced and innovative enviornment with autonomy
• Thrive in a results-driven workplace with opportunities for career growth and continuous learning
• Competitive salary and company benefits
• Remote-first, work-from-home arrangement (may vary depending on the nature of the role and team)

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