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Market Data Specialist (Derivatives and Cash) (Ref: 090602-MC-001)
Sector, Sub Sector: Software Analytics , Risk Solutions
Risk Type: Multiple
Expertise: Technology
Trading/Derivatives
Company: NumeriX LLC
Location: New York , New York Americas, United States
Employment Type: Permanent
Job Description:

Role:

Responsible for maintaining data and data integrity across a variety of daily and intraday sources related to the capital markets. The candidate should be a high performance, hands-on data specialist and manager with excellent technical and managerial skills, knowledge of market data and market vendors.  This role entails working closely with quantitative researchers, financial engineers and IT operations.This job also entails supporting one-time requests and on-going market data requirements.

Main Functions:
•    Manage market data sources
•    Centralize data sources across the research areas

Job Description:
•    Market data expert for the firm
•    Manage and fulfill all requests for data.
•    Acquire historical data from external vendors as needed
•    Design effective solutions for managing, storing and retrieving historical data.
•    Responsible for data normalization and cleanup
•    Write scripts which cleanup, normalize, manage and extract market data.
•    Assist development in design of applications that consume market data.
•    Manage projects and deliver on time with periodic status reports to management.
•    Work collaboratively with IT and commercial teams to achieve firm goals.
•    Provide support off-hours and remotely when needed
•    Comfortable working in a demanding, high-pressure environment
•    Effective at communicating with commercial and technology staff

Experience:                
•    7-10 years of financial markets experience – buy or sell side.
•    Strong knowledge of market data in as many of the ff asset types as possible – Rates, Credit, Commodities, FX, Rates. Knowledge should cover sources and APIs, RICs, market data conventions, time series data and relevant static/reference data.
•    Strong familiarity with as many of the following platforms and APIs as possible: Bloomberg, Reuters, Markit, CMA, CBOT/CME.
•    Must be hands-on with data gathering, analysis & validation, cleansing and augmentation techniques and must have worked extensively with market data aggregation and warehousing platforms – Timescape experience a major plus – and be technically hands-on in support technologies like SQL and scripting languages (Perl, Shell etc).
•    Knowledge of data formats like FpML, FIX, FIXML are a distinct advantage.
•    Working knowledge of Market Data Warehouse products such as Asset Control, Golden Source, Timescape or similar is a plus.

Education:
•    Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field is preferred
•    Finance degree is a plus

•    This is NOT a data vendor relationship management, platform connectivity support or DBA role.
Job Ref No: 090602-MC-001