Senior Lead Infrastructure Engineer – Market Data – AWS / Snowflake

Overview

As Lead Engineer in Market Data Services, you design, deliver, and maintain critical data distribution systems spanning on-premises and cloud environments to serve multiple lines of business. You will work closely with cross-functional teams in an Agile setting to ensure fast, reliable data delivery for realtime, historical, and AI/ML use-cases. You drive engineering excellence with a focus on resiliency, security, and regulatory alignment, shaping how third-party data powers client solutions. This role offers impact at scale within a world-class financial services firm and opportunities to lead AI-assisted delivery practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain real-time and historical data delivery systems
• Collaborate with product owners to align data solutions with business and regulatory needs
• Balance best-of-breed with cost-effective solutions and drive reuse of AI-assisted practices
• Provide 3rd-level operational support and ensure issue mitigation
• Lead adoption of AI-assisted workflows with validated, auditable outputs
• Present findings and solutions to senior management
• Champion process and control disciplines
• Ensure data security, resiliency, and auditability in all changes

Key requirements

• Formal training or certification in infrastructure engineering concepts
• Advanced experience with cloud technologies including Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS
• Data Lake technologies (Snowflake, Databricks, AWS Glue/Athena, Lake Formation)
• Experience using enterprise AI capabilities to support infrastructure workflows with strong validation
• Ability to review AI-assisted recommendations before implementation
• Network architecture and protocols
• Programming languages (Java, Python, C++)
• Market Data / messaging products and vendors (e.g. TREP, Vela, Bloomberg BPIPE, Solace, AMPS)
• Database technologies and SQL scripting
• Monitoring tools (ITRS Geneos, Dynatrace, Datadog)

• Cross-functional collaboration
• Clear concise communication
• Team player with openness to different viewpoints
• Kubernetes
• Terraform
• AWS

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