Market Data Engineer
Trading Technologies International, Inc.2 days ago
New York, NY, USASenior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Integrate and support market data feeds from ICE, Refinitiv, and other providers, including vendor formats, identifiers, entitlements, and configuration.
- Develop and maintain C# feed handlers and real-time processing systems for trades, quotes, Level 1 data, and Level 2 market depth.
- Manage multi-asset reference data, instrument mappings, exchange and venue mappings, currency attributes, and pricing data.
- Develop and optimize SQL Server queries, stored procedures, and data-processing workflows.
- Build and support Snowflake ingestion, transformation, validation, reconciliation, and analytical workflows.
- Use Python and scripting tools for validation, monitoring, reconciliation, and operational automation.
- Troubleshoot feed interruptions, data gaps, bottlenecks, discrepancies, and recovery scenarios in critical production systems.
- Modernize market data workflows by migrating appropriate processing from SQL Server to Snowflake and AWS infrastructure.
- Collaborate with TCA engineers, product teams, and other stakeholders on market data capabilities and services.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field.
- At least 8 to 10+ years of relevant professional experience in software engineering and financial market data systems.
- Strong knowledge of equities, futures, options, foreign exchange, and fixed income market data.
- Hands-on C# experience building or maintaining feed handlers, market data applications, or real-time data processing systems.
- Strong SQL development experience, including Microsoft SQL Server queries, stored procedures, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
- Hands-on experience with Snowflake and AWS cloud services.
- Experience integrating external market data feeds, preferably ICE, Refinitiv/LSEG, or comparable vendors.
- Understanding of reference data, identifiers, symbology, venue mappings, end-of-day pricing, and intraday pricing.
- Ability to independently diagnose production issues, own technical deliverables, and work with minimal supervision.
- Preferred experience includes vendor APIs and feed protocols, high-volume tick data, trade and quote normalization, data quality controls, Apache Airflow, AWS S3, Git, Liquibase, automated deployment, data governance, TCA, and financial analytics.
- Snowflake or AWS certification is preferred.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus FSA and HSA options.
- 401(k), pre-tax transit and parking benefits, and discounted healthcare premiums.
- Hybrid schedule requiring three days in the office and allowing two remote days per week.
- 22 days of annual PTO with rollover, paid holidays, parental leave, and milestone anniversary PTO additions.
- Annual volunteering day and two professional development days.
- Budget for monitors, headphones, keyboards, and other technology accessories.
- Backup child and pet care and tutoring services.
- Milestone anniversary bonuses, cell phone contributions, gym and wellness contributions, and healthy meal delivery subsidies.
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Trading Technologies International, Inc.
Trading Technologies International builds a SaaS platform for professional trading, order management, market data and risk, connecting clients to major global exchanges for listed derivatives and other asset classes. Its products span execution tools, algorithmic and automated trading, surveillance and post-trade services, delivered over a low‑latency network with colocation footprints across North America, Europe and Asia. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Chicago, the company is privately held under 7RIDGE ownership.