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Market Data Engineer.

Millennium Management
London
2 months ago
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Market Data Engineer

The SPEED Market Data team seeks a multi skilled engineer who is excited to support, monitor, architect, and implement low latency C++ systems that are robust, resilient, accurate, stable, and exceedingly fast. By building and maintaining this high-performance infrastructure, this engineer will help position MLP as a leader in the field of quantitative trading. The successful candidate will work alongside other exceptional engineers and strategists to solve business critical that are vital to our systematic trading business.

We are looking for a strong candidate with financial markets technology experience and realtime market data expertise to build and support globally our realtime (both low latency and non-latency sensitive) market data plant. The ideal candidate must be comfortable with monitoring, support, development, and client management duties with goals of ensuring stability of the existing environment whilst also designing and implementing platform improvements.

Principal Responsibilities

Support and management of both enterprise and latency sensitive realtime market data environments, including management of internal, vendor, and exchange-initiated changes Liaison with users of the market data environment, including Portfolio Managers, trading desks, and core technology teams Contributing towards the team’s technical direction by driving new initiatives Collaborating with hardware and software developers across divisions to build realtime market data processing and distribution systems Optimizing this platform by using network and systems programming, as well as other advanced techniques to minimize latency Design and engineering of components to automate support and management capabilities for the market data platform, including monitoring, realtime and historic metrics collection/visualization, and administrative functions including self-service user facing tools Enhancement of processes and workflows related to operation of the market data platform, such as release deployment, incident management and remediation, exchange notification handling, defining and enforcing SLAs

Qualifications/Skills Required

Technical experience supporting market data environments within a global organization, including both internally developed feed handlers and distribution infrastructure Strong understanding of market data concepts and functionality, such as data models (fields/messages), protocols (e.g. snapshot + delta), order book representations (e.g. L1/L2/L3), recovery and reliability Technical background in application development on complex market data systems (i.e. – Bloomberg, Thompson Reuters, etc) Hands on Site Reliability Engineering or operational skills, including system administration, automation, measurement, release / deployment management Experience with monitoring, metrics and command/control functionality for distributed market data platforms; ability to evaluate existing solutions and drive enhancements through coordination of development and operations teams A degree in computer science or a related field with a strong background in object-oriented programming or scripting languages Good understanding of Linux system internals and networking Deep understanding of CPU architecture and the ability to leverage CPU capabilities Able to prioritize in a fast moving, high pressure, constantly changing environment with a good sense of urgency and ownership Effective communication and relationship management skills (client and vendor): The candidate will be expected to work closely with business and technology users to understand their current and future needs Demonstrate thoroughness and strong ownership of work through a detail-oriented approach

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