# Market Data Engineer

**Company**: Equity IT
**Location**: London
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a Market Data Engineer to join our team at Equity IT. As a Market Data Engineer, you will be responsible for supporting and managing both enterprise and latency-sensitive real-time market data environments.

## Responsibilities

- Support and manage both enterprise and latency-sensitive real-time market data environments, including internal, vendor, and exchange-driven changes

- Partner with Portfolio Managers, trading desks, and core technology teams to support users of the market data platform and address evolving business needs

- Help shape the team’s technical direction by driving platform enhancements and new engineering initiatives

- Collaborate with hardware and software engineering teams across the firm to build real-time market data processing and distribution systems

- Optimize platform performance through network and systems programming techniques designed to reduce latency and improve reliability

- Design and build tools that automate support and platform management, including monitoring, real-time and historical metrics, visualization, and self-service administrative capabilities

- Strengthen operational processes and workflows across release management, incident response, remediation, exchange notification handling, and SLA enforcement

- Contribute to the stability and evolution of the global market data plant across both low-latency and non-latency-sensitive environments

## Requirements

- Experience supporting market data environments within a global organization, including internally developed feed handlers and distribution infrastructure

- Strong understanding of market data concepts, including data models, messaging protocols, order book structures, recovery, and reliability mechanisms

- Technical background in developing and supporting complex market data systems, including platforms such as Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters

- Hands-on site reliability engineering or operational expertise, including system administration, automation, measurement, and release or deployment management

- Experience with monitoring, metrics, and command-and-control capabilities for distributed market data platforms, with the ability to assess current solutions and drive improvements

- Degree in Computer Science or a related field, with strong object-oriented programming or scripting experience

- Solid understanding of Linux internals, networking, and CPU architecture, with the ability to apply that knowledge to high-performance systems

- Strong prioritization, communication, relationship management, and ownership skills, with a detail-oriented approach in fast-moving, high-pressure environments

## Skills

### Required
- market data environments
- data models
- messaging protocols
- order book structures
- recovery mechanisms
- reliability mechanisms
- complex market data systems
- Bloomberg
- Thomson Reuters
- site reliability engineering
- system administration
- automation
- measurement
- release management
- deployment management
- monitoring
- metrics
- command-and-control capabilities
- distributed market data platforms
- object-oriented programming
- scripting
- Linux internals
- networking
- CPU architecture
- high-performance systems

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