Market Data Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Singapore.

📋 Description

• Define and manage the market data strategy and roadmap for the TradFi program.

• Assess, evaluate, and prioritize exchange and vendor data necessary for upcoming TradFi products.

• Lead the sourcing process and negotiate commercial agreements with exchanges, consolidators, and market data suppliers.

• Oversee licensing contracts, renewals, and the overall data expenditure.

• Facilitate comprehensive data integration with engineering, which includes feed onboarding, normalization, symbology and reference data, corporate actions, and distribution to trading and client-facing platforms.

• Establish governance throughout the data lifecycle, encompassing entitlements management, data quality monitoring, lineage, and adherence to exchange usage policies and audit standards.

• Collaborate with product, legal, and compliance teams on data licensing and redistribution agreements.

• Keep an updated overview of the market data landscape, including sources, vendors, partnership models, and pricing structures.

• Build and mentor a small, evolving market data team.

• Set the operational rhythm with product and engineering teams.

• Serve as the in-house authority 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 discipline.

• A minimum of 6–10 years of experience in market data or trading technology within a global online brokerage, exchange, fintech, or market data vendor, with a proven history of establishing or scaling market data for trading platforms.

• Extensive knowledge of the market data ecosystem, including exchange feeds, vendor products, licensing and redistribution frameworks, entitlements, and exchange audit/compliance processes.

• Practical experience in sourcing and integrating market data across various TradFi asset classes (such as equities, derivatives, commodities, fixed income, FX, and indices) and regions.

• Strong understanding of market data technology and reference data, including feed protocols, normalization, symbology standards, corporate actions, and time-series distribution.

• Robust commercial and negotiation abilities; experience managing vendor relationships and overseeing a data budget.

• Exceptional stakeholder management skills, engaging effectively with product, engineering, legal, and finance teams; capable of navigating both technical and commercial discussions.

• Comfortable creating processes from the ground up in a dynamic, high-velocity environment.

• Preferred: Experience establishing a market data function at a brokerage launching new asset classes or entering new markets.

• Preferred: Comprehensive knowledge of the APAC, US, and European market data landscapes and exchange policies.

• Preferred: Technical proficiency (SQL/Python; familiarity with common feed protocols and data architectures).

• Preferred: Understanding of market data and trading products.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and company benefits.

• Work-from-home arrangement (subject to the nature of the business team's work).

• Opportunities for career advancement and ongoing learning.

• Flat organizational structure.

• Autonomy in an innovative work environment.