Market Data Specialist, Metadata
About this role
About the Position
We’re looking for a Market Data Specialist to join our Metadata team, working on improving and supporting our internal golden copy Security Master and Corporate Action Management systems. You’ll be responsible for configuring our systems to improve data quality, helping with data cleaning and validation, solving support issues for internal clients, and interfacing with our data providers.
You’ll be embedded into the Metadata Systems Engineering team and will work with software developers, traders, and operations professionals across the firm.
Responsibilities include:
- Investigating data quality and reliability issues
- Interfacing with exchanges or data vendors, raising, tracking, and resolving issues
- Helping us (the Metadata team and internal clients) understand our data better
- Potentially advising on solutions, e.g., changing monitoring
- Configuring internal services/tools and adding overrides
About You
- Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills
- Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills
- Experience with financial instrument metadata, especially reference data preferred
- Programming experience in any language and knowledge of SQL or other database language(s)
- Confident in a Linux/Unix command-line-driven environment
- Responsible, organised, and great attention to detail
- Operations, support, and customer-centric experience a plus
- Fluency in English required
If you're a recruiting agency and want to partner with us, please reach out to [email protected].
Company at a glance
Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm with offices in New York, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Amsterdam. We are always recruiting top candidates and we invest heavily in teaching and training. The environment at Jane Street is open, informal, intellectual, and fun. People grow into long careers here because there are always new and interesting problems to solve, systems to build, and theories to test.
More than twenty years after our founding, it still feels like we’re just getting started.
Jane Street does not offer any services to individual investors: https://www.janestreet.com/fraud-and-impersonation-warnings/
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