Lead Market Data Developer
Contract | £1,000-£1,200 per day | Outside IR35
London - 3 days per week onsite
World-Leading Commodities Firm
A world-leading commodities trading firm is seeking a Lead Market Data Developer to head up its market data development function. This is a high-impact role focused on building and enhancing a mission-critical Data Management System (DMS) that underpins market data reliability for a major global oil trading division.
You will lead a team of market data developers, own full lifecycle delivery of market data solutions, and act as the subject matter expert for curve development across the commodities oil business.
This is a strategic contract position reporting directly to the Head of Market Data.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead and mentor a team of market data developers, driving a collaborative and high-performance culture.
* Act as the SME for market data initiatives, particularly around commodity oil curve development.
* Manage and align stakeholders on project goals, timelines, and outcomes.
* Own end-to‑end project delivery: requirements, design, development, and service deployment.
* Build and enhance data parsers, ETL pipelines, and distribution tooling under a standardised data model.
* Create, maintain, and remark complex commodity curves supporting trading, pricing, and risk.
* Collaborate with vendors and internal technology teams to ensure seamless feed integration.
* Provide second‑line support for daily parsing, calculations, and curve‑driven market data processes.
* Partner with exchanges, PRAs, and external market data providers to ensure accurate and timely delivery.
Skills & Experience
* Strong experience onboarding, processing, and distributing market data from multiple sources (API, file, scraping).
* Proven track record building market data or data management system components.
* Deep understanding of ETL/ELT workflows, data warehousing, and handling EOD/tick data.
* Strong engineering discipline - clean, testable, standardised code.
* Good knowledge of schema design and modern deployment/automation practices.
* Familiarity with Zema, Docker, and containerised environments is advantageous.
* Experience within commodities or financial‑services trading technology teams is highly desirable.
Contract Details
* £1,000 - £1,200 per day
* Outside IR35
* 3 days per week in London office
* Long‑term engagement potential with a world‑leading trading organisation
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