CareerPlan

Market Data Engineer

London, United KingdomFull-time2026-09-04 → 2026-11-10

Core

Build, maintain, and enhance resilient real-time market data infrastructure supporting systematic trading across low-latency and enterprise environments.

Role type

Senior Market Data Engineer (SRE focus)

Builds

Real-time market data processing and distribution systems, internal feed handlers, and monitoring tools

Domain

Financial markets / High-performance computing

Required skills

Linux internals, networking, CPU architecture, system administration, automation, release management, incident response, object-oriented programming, scripting

Preferred skills

Experience with Bloomberg/Thomson Reuters platforms, monitoring and metrics for distributed platforms, site reliability engineering

Technologies

Linux, networking protocols, feed handlers, monitoring tools

Responsibilities

Manage enterprise and latency-sensitive real-time market data environments; Partner with trading desks to address business needs; Drive platform enhancements and new engineering initiatives; Collaborate on real-time data processing systems; Optimize performance to reduce latency; Design automation tools for monitoring and administration; Strengthen operational workflows and SLA enforcement.