Lead Market Data Developer - Commodities
Posted Today by 1764908086
£1,200 Per day
Outside
Hybrid
London
Summary: The Lead Market Data Developer will oversee the market data development function at a world-leading commodities trading firm, focusing on enhancing a critical Data Management System for a global oil trading division. This strategic contract role involves leading a team, managing project delivery, and acting as a subject matter expert in commodity oil curve development. The position requires collaboration with various stakeholders and vendors to ensure data reliability and integration. The role is based in London with a hybrid working arrangement of three days onsite per week.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and mentor a team of market data developers, driving a collaborative and high-performance culture.
- Act as the SME for market data initiatives, particularly around commodity oil curve development.
- Manage and align stakeholders on project goals, timelines, and outcomes.
- Own end-to-end project delivery: requirements, design, development, and service deployment.
- Build and enhance data parsers, ETL pipelines, and distribution tooling under a standardised data model.
- Create, maintain, and remark complex commodity curves supporting trading, pricing, and risk.
- Collaborate with vendors and internal technology teams to ensure seamless feed integration.
- Provide second-line support for daily parsing, calculations, and curve-driven market data processes.
- Partner with exchanges, PRAs, and external market data providers to ensure accurate and timely delivery.
Key Skills:
- Strong experience onboarding, processing, and distributing market data from multiple sources (API, file, scraping).
- Proven track record building market data or data management system components.
- Deep understanding of ETL/ELT workflows, data warehousing, and handling EOD/tick data.
- Strong engineering discipline-clean, testable, standardised code.
- Good knowledge of schema design and modern deployment/automation practices.
- Familiarity with Zema, Docker, and containerised environments is advantageous.
- Experience within commodities or financial-services trading technology teams is highly desirable.
Salary (Rate): £1,200 per day
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Lead Market Data Developer
Contract | £1,000-£1,200 per day | Outside IR35
London - 3 days per week onsite
World-Leading Commodities Firm
A world-leading commodities trading firm is seeking a Lead Market Data Developer to head up its market data development function. This is a high-impact role focused on building and enhancing a mission-critical Data Management System (DMS) that underpins market data reliability for a major global oil trading division.
You will lead a team of market data developers, own full lifecycle delivery of market data solutions, and act as the subject matter expert for curve development across the commodities oil business.
This is a strategic contract position reporting directly to the Head of Market Data.
Key Responsibilities
Lead and mentor a team of market data developers, driving a collaborative and high-performance culture.
Act as the SME for market data initiatives, particularly around commodity oil curve development.
Manage and align stakeholders on project goals, timelines, and outcomes.
Own end-to-end project delivery: requirements, design, development, and service deployment.
Build and enhance data parsers, ETL pipelines, and distribution tooling under a standardised data model.
Create, maintain, and remark complex commodity curves supporting trading, pricing, and risk.
Collaborate with vendors and internal technology teams to ensure seamless feed integration.
Provide second-line support for daily parsing, calculations, and curve-driven market data processes.
Partner with exchanges, PRAs, and external market data providers to ensure accurate and timely delivery.
Skills & Experience
Strong experience onboarding, processing, and distributing market data from multiple sources (API, file, scraping).
Proven track record building market data or data management system components.
Deep understanding of ETL/ELT workflows, data warehousing, and handling EOD/tick data.
Strong engineering discipline-clean, testable, standardised code.
Good knowledge of schema design and modern deployment/automation practices.
Familiarity with Zema, Docker, and containerised environments is advantageous.
Experience within commodities or financial-services trading technology teams is highly desirable.
Contract Details
£1,000 - £1,200 per day
Outside IR35
3 days per week in London office
Long-term engagement potential with a world-leading trading organisation