Senior Market Data Analyst - onsite Boston

Yoh Services LLC; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 105,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Prescription, Dental & Vision

Health Savings Account

Life & Disability Insurance

401K Retirement Savings Plan

Direct Deposit & weekly epayroll

Referral Bonus Programs

Certification and training

Job summary

Yoh, a Day & Zimmermann company, seeks an experienced Senior Market Data Analyst to lead the Market Data and Security Master functions within the Central Data group in onsite Boston.

The role is hands-on leadership, owning data integrity across trading, portfolio management, and reporting workflows, and partnering with Technology and business teams to evolve data strategies with governance and AI enablement.

Qualifications

• 7-10 years of experience in market data and/or reference data within an investment manager, hedge fund, asset owner, or comparable financial services environment.
• 3+ years of management experience.
• Expertise across security master and market data domains; knowledge of major providers and content sets across asset classes.
• Experience managing vendor relationships; familiarity with market data licensing and usage restrictions.
• Demonstrated ability to build cross-functional relationships with senior stakeholders and translate needs into delivery plans.
• Experience contributing to or leading data transformation initiatives, including data quality and governance programs.
• Deep understanding of instrument data across asset classes, including identifiers, classifications, pricing.
• Excellent communication skills across business, technology, and vendors.
• Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, CS, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end governance of the firm’s security master and contribute to hedge fund and private market product setup and review.
• Establish and maintain golden-source standards, data models, and instrument lifecycles from onboarding to retirement.
• Define data quality controls, exception management, and reconciliation across front-to-back data flow.
• Oversee corporate actions, pricing, ratings, classifications, and issuer data including entity hierarchies.
• Lead market data strategy and delivery for real-time, intraday, and end-of-day feeds across asset classes.
• Manage entitlements and licensing compliance and redistribution policies.
• Translate evolving investment and operational data needs into scalable, controlled solutions.
• Monitor industry trends and ensure data capabilities stay ahead of business needs.
• Partner with technology and other data leaders on platform modernization and governance.

Skills

Market data management

Leadership/management

Vendor management

Data governance

Instrument data knowledge

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Collibra

Alation

Job description

Senior Market Data Analyst - onsite Boston

We are seeking an experienced Principal to lead our Market Data and Security Master functions within the Central Data function. This is a hands‑on leadership role at the center of the firm's investment, operations, risk, and technology workflows which involves owning the integrity of reference data that powers trading, portfolio management, performance, valuation, and reporting firmwide.

Key Responsibilities

Security & Product Master

• Own end-to-end governance of the firm's security master, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timeliness across all instruments (equities, fixed income, derivatives, FX). Contribute to the fund master function as needed, including support on setup and review of hedge fund and private market products.


• Establish and maintain golden‑source standards, data models, identifier hierarchies (CUSIP, ISIN, SEDOL, FIGI, LEI, internal IDs), and instrument lifecycle workflows from onboarding through retirement.


• Define and enforce data quality controls, exception management, and reconciliation processes across the front-to-back data flow; resolve breaks impacting trading, operations, accounting, and risk.


• Oversee corporate actions, pricing, ratings, classifications, and issuer/entity reference data, including legal entity hierarchies and counterparty data.

Market Data Strategy & Delivery

• Establish and own the firm's market data strategy, shaping how the firm sources, integrates, and consumes market data over the coming years.


• Lead sourcing, integration, and quality assurance of real‑time, intraday, and end‑of‑day market data feeds across asset classes.


• Manage entitlements and permissioning, ensuring adherence to licensing terms and redistribution policies.


• Translate evolving investment, trading, and operational data requirements into scalable, well‑controlled solutions, working hand‑in‑hand with the teams that consume the data.


• Monitor industry trends - new content sets, regulatory changes, and vendor product evolution - and ensure the firm's market data capabilities stay ahead of business needs.

Data Transformation, Governance & AI Enablement

• Contribute as a leader to the firm's broader data transformation agenda, including data quality, data governance, and AI enablement initiatives.


• Ensure the firm's reference and market data foundations are fit for purpose to support advanced analytics and AI use cases.


• Partner with Technology and other Data Management leaders on platform modernization, lineage, metadata, and control frameworks.

Stakeholder Partnership & Delivery Management

• Build productive relationships with functional leaders across Research, CIO, Operations, Reporting, Risk, Finance, Compliance, and Technology.


• Establish and maintain a prioritization framework and delivery roadmap that balances competing demands, trade‑offs, and aligns the team's work with business outcomes.

Vendor Management & Budget Stewardship

• Own commercial relationships with major market and reference data providers. Lead contract negotiation, renewals, and rationalization. Identify opportunities cost savings.


• Own the market and reference data budget end-to-end including forecasting, tracking actuals against budget, and ROI tracking for new spend.

Required Qualifications

• 7-10 years of experience in market data and/or reference data within an investment manager, hedge fund, asset owner, or comparable financial services environment.


• 3+ years management experience


• Expertise across security master and market data domains. Strong working knowledge of the major market and reference data providers and their content sets across asset classes.


• Experience managing vendor relationships. Familiarity with market data licensing and usage restrictions.


• Demonstrated ability to build cross‑functional relationships with senior business stakeholders and translate their needs into delivery plans.


• Experience contributing to or leading data transformation initiatives, including data quality and data governance programs.


• Deep understanding of instrument data across asset classes, including identifiers, classifications, corporate actions, and pricing.


• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to operate fluently across business stakeholders, technologists, and vendors.


• Bachelor's degree required; finance, economics, computer science, or related field preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to private markets and alternatives reference data.


• Experience contributing to AI / ML enablement from a data foundations perspective.


• Familiarity with cloud-based data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks) and data governance tooling (Collibra, Alation).


• CFA, CIPM, or DAMA-CDMP certifications viewed favorably.

Estimated Min Rate: $105000.00

Estimated Max Rate: $150000.00

Benefits

• Medical, Prescription, Dental & Vision Benefits (for employees working 20+ hours per week)


• Health Savings Account (HSA) (for employees working 20+ hours per week)


• Life & Disability Insurance (for employees working 20+ hours per week)


• MetLife Voluntary Benefits


• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)


• 401K Retirement Savings Plan


• Direct Deposit & weekly epayroll


• Referral Bonus Programs


• Certification and training opportunities

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