Lead Infrastructure Engineer – Market Data Services

Overview

In this Lead Infrastructure Engineer role, you drive the reliability and performance of critical market data platforms within a global financial services firm. You join a high-performing Market Data team, working across production environments and shifts to support trading workflows. You will implement changes, automate operations, and apply AI-assisted approaches to design and documentation, delivering resilient, auditable infrastructure. This role offers impact through modernization and close collaboration with cross-functional partners.

Responsibilities

• Provide production support for critical market data platforms, ensuring stability, performance, and availability
• Implement production changes with clear root-cause ownership and timely resolution
• Develop tools and automation to improve production support, monitoring, and stability
• Leverage enterprise‑authorized AI capabilities to accelerate infrastructure analysis and validate outputs
• Drive a workstream of infrastructure technologies to modernize processes and resolve issues
• Assess upstream/downstream data and systems implications and advise mitigation actions
• Apply reuse-first, AI-assisted practices to identify recurring issues and ensure changes are traceable and secure

Key requirements

• Formal training or certification in infrastructure engineering concepts with experience in TREP / DACS
• Deep knowledge in at least one infrastructure area (hardware, networking, databases, storage, deployment, automation, resilience, or performance)
• Experience using enterprise‑authorized AI capabilities with validation and awareness of data sensitivity
• Proficiency in one specific infrastructure technology and scripting languages
• Strong cloud infrastructure knowledge across public and private clouds
• Hands-on experience with market data technologies used by trading apps (installation and support) such as LSEG RMDS and EEDs, DACS, Bloomberg BPIPE and MFA, Solace, Metafluent, ITRS Geneos
• Data content and quality expertise and experience with tick history tools
• Networking (IP, TCP/UDP/MCAST) and Linux (RedHat) system administration
• Preferred: direct market data feeds / trading content experience; programming/scripting: Shell, Python, Perl, SQL; optional: Javascript, C++

• team player with ability to work autonomously
• strong problem-solving and diagnostic abilities
• clear communication and collaboration across cross-functional teams
• TREP / DACS
• LSEG RMDS
• EEDs

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