Market Data Specialist

About the role

The bank is looking for a Market Data Specialist to oversee its market data services and platforms. This role serves as the primary liaison with vendors such as Bloomberg, Refinitiv, exchanges, and rating agencies, ensuring smooth operation, compliance, and cost efficiency.

Key responsibilities

• Manage relationships, contracts, licensing, renewals, and costs for market data vendors.
• Administer market data platforms, handling user access, permissions, subscriptions, entitlements, and data feeds.
• Monitor data quality, integrity, and compliance with licensing requirements.
• Support vendor audits, conduct usage reviews, and identify cost‑optimization opportunities.
• Coordinate onboarding of new market data services with internal and external stakeholders.
• Participate in strategic initiatives, migrations, transformations, and IT projects.
• Maintain documentation, governance controls, knowledge repositories, and reporting related to market data services.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Banking, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or a related field (postgraduate qualifications advantageous).
• Minimum 4 years of experience in market data, financial markets, banking technology, or a related domain.
• Strong understanding of financial markets, market data licensing, exchanges, financial instruments, and indices.
• Experience in vendor management, governance, audits, stakeholder management, and large‑scale IT or banking transformation projects is highly desirable.

Required skills

• Bloomberg
• Refinitiv/LSEG
• B‑Pipe
• BDL
• Eikon
• EMS
• DSS