Market Data Strategy 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 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.