Strategic Market Data Lead

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.

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.
• Not reliant on data engineers/analysts for basic tasks.