Market Access Platform Lead

What you'll be doing

  • Lead and develop a team of platform engineers through clear objectives, regular feedback, performance reviews and career development.
  • Coach team members, support recruitment and onboarding, and promote technical ownership and knowledge sharing.
  • Prioritise team capacity across production support, project delivery and platform improvements.
  • Own the reliability, data quality and scalability of market data pipelines, including PCAP, PIDUMP and reference data.
  • Provide technical direction and contribute to configuration, scripting, tooling and complex troubleshooting.
  • Oversee infrastructure ownership, SIM/UAT environment provisioning and capacity planning.
  • Improve testing, post-deployment validation, observability, automation and platform performance.
  • Lead desk requests, exchange and vendor upgrades, and platform initiatives while managing dependencies, risks and stakeholder communication.

Requirements

  • Proven experience directly managing a technical team, including coaching, performance management and professional development.
  • Strong experience supporting or engineering market access, market data or comparable production platforms in a trading environment.
  • Practical knowledge of financial markets, exchange data feeds and market data processing.
  • Hands-on Python or Bash development and scripting skills.
  • A track record of delivering technical projects and operational improvements across competing priorities and dependencies.
  • Clear communication and sound judgement when working with traders, engineers, infrastructure teams and external providers.
  • A proactive approach to ownership, attention to detail, reliable operations and clear documentation.

Nice to haves

  • C++ development, code changes and deployment workflows.
  • Data or cloud engineering, including ingestion infrastructure and automated pipeline quality checks.
  • Reliability engineering, DevOps, observability or performance tuning for latency-sensitive trading systems.

Perks and benefits

  • Equal opportunity employer that welcomes diversity as essential to success.
  • Empowers employees to work openly and respectfully to achieve collective success.
  • Initiatives and programmes to help employees achieve a healthy work-life balance.
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