About the Position

We’re looking for a Market Data Specialist to help our Metadata team improve and support our internal golden copy Security Master and Corporate Action Management systems. You will configure our systems to improve data quality, help with data cleaning and validation, solve support issues for internal clients and interface with our data providers.

While this role is permanently based in our Hong Kong office, it will require you to spend the first 6 to 12 months working from our New York office location.

You’ll be embedded in our Metadata Systems Engineering team, where you 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 colleagues) understand our data better
• Potentially advising on solutions (e.g., changing monitoring systems)
• 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, organized, and great attention to detail
• Operations, support, and customer-centric experience a plus
• Fluency in English required

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