Strategic Market Data Lead
This is a strategic, hands on, standalone role that blends market data vendor management, technical capability, and business engagement.
I need someone with Financial Service experience ideally Wealth Manager, below are the key components of the role
Market Data Vendor Oversight
* Identify and catalogue current market data feeds managed by business teams
* Engage business stakeholders to understand data needs.
* Assess overlapping vendor feeds
* Drive cost savings, synergies, and vendor consolidation where possible.
* Support decommissioning or renegotiation of feeds.
Procurement & Contractual Understanding
* Work closely with procurement teams.
* Understand contract obligations and typical market data vendor operating models.
All the relevant skills, qualifications and experience that a successful applicant will need are listed in the following description.
Technical & Data Capability
The role sits in the data department, so the candidate must be technically capable:
* Understand data architecture and how feeds land in Snowflake.
* Ability to run SQL queries, investigate data, and compare feeds.
* Familiarity with concepts like EDP, data lakes, ingestion of PDFs, etc.
* Should be able to use AI/tools to automate comparisons. xsngvjr
* Not reliant on data engineers/analysts for basic tasks.