Market Data Architect – Asset Management recruitment
Market Data Architect – Asset Management
Essential Skills
- Experience of having worked as a solution architect / lead designer within Financial Services with a focus on Market data applications, for example from a front office (investment banking or investment management) development background;
- Knowledge and understanding of asset management (“buy side”) industry gained working either at an Asset Manager, a Financial Services Service provider or a software company;
- Experience of having worked with a range of market data solutions including Bloomberg and Reuters;
- Experience in designing a Global Market Data Reference hub;
- Experience of having undertaken key system integration projects involving integration of market data solutions;
- Ability to translate business needs into solution architecture requirements;
- Ability to estimate the financial impact of solution architecture alternatives;
- Ability to apply multiple technical solutions to business problems;
- Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies.
The role of Market Data Architect is to support the delivery teams in the usage of market data within their applications. Given the breadth of the businesses that operates the market data requirements and points of interaction are significant.
Therefore this is an important role in the efficient and effective usage of market data within the organisation.
Your key accountabilities
- Define the reference architecture for the integration of market data sources into a Data environment;
- Responsible for working closely with the Delivery teams to set out an adoption roadmap for this reference architecture including both new application builds and legacy application migrations;
- Provide guidance and oversight to Delivery teams on usage and integration with market data solutions;
- Responsible for working with the Operational Market data teams and the commercial teams to ensure that the company is making effective use of its investment in market data whilst operating within the contractual terms agreed with the various market data vendors.
November 26, 2011
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