Market Data Ops Analyst – Licensing & Compliance

Alpaca; New York (NY); Remote; USD 65,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health benefits

Home-office setup

Brex card stipend

Job summary

Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. We are seeking an Operations Analyst for Market Data to manage data licensing, usage reporting, and entitlements, ensuring compliance with data sources as we grow our market data product.

You will collaborate with data sources, brokers/partners, and internal teams across market data, sales, legal, finance and engineering to support licensing

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in operations, ideally in market data administration, data licensing or vendor management within financial services.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Highly organized, able to manage many recurring deadlines across multiple counterparties.
• Ability to read and interpret contract and licensing terms.
• Strong Excel/Google Sheets skills.
• Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Manage new data licenses and renewals with all data sources, including exchange groups and other data providers.
• Track license terms, renewal dates and obligations so that nothing lapses.
• Prepare and submit accurate, on-time monthly usage reporting for each data feed to each data source.
• Monitor the licensing of brokers/partners redistributing our data, maintaining current evidence of distribution licensing/authorization for each one.
• Enable and disable data feeds for broker/partner customers in line with their licensing and contracts.
• Respond to data source audits and inquiries, keeping our licensing records and documentation complete and up to date.
• Identify opportunities to improve and automate our licensing, reporting and entitlement processes.
• Assist with customer support queries regarding data feeds or licensing.

Skills

Operations

Excel/Sheets

Contract reading

Data licensing

Communication

Attention to detail

Tools

SQL

Scripting

Job description

Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. We are seeking an Operations Analyst for Market Data to manage data licensing, usage reporting, and entitlements, ensuring compliance with data sources as we grow our market data product.

You will collaborate with data sources, brokers/partners, and internal teams across market data, sales, legal, finance and engineering to support licensing