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About the Role
As a Market Data Strategist, you will identify, source, and enhance the effectiveness of external datasets for Tower Research Capital's trading environment. This role focuses on exchange data and core market data, involving licensing, reporting, controls, and account management.
Responsibilities
- Work with global exchanges, index providers, and market data vendors to review and negotiate contracts, including commercials and usage rights.
- Monitor inbound exchange and vendor notifications to assess their impact on Tower and triage accordingly.
- Engage with internal stakeholders, including Trading and Engineering, to define and support new and existing use cases.
- Design and implement robust data strategies and governance policies aligned with business objectives.
- Identify key market trends, analyze competitor data, and guide decision-making.
- Manage exchange usage and reporting, audits, and compliance of market data.
Requirements
- Detailed knowledge of market data policies, focusing on unit of count and derived data.
- Solid understanding of market data pricing models and metrics, with the ability to provide alternative sourcing and contracting options.
- Familiarity with global vendor platforms, products, entitlement systems (e.g., VBD, BPIPE, EMRS, DACS), and inventory management systems (e.g., FITS, MDM).
- Experience managing market data audits from inception to completion.
- Proven self-starter capable of working independently and within a team, effectively managing multiple priorities.
- Strong strategic thinker and problem solver with attention to detail.
- Reliable and predictable partner for team members, senior staff, and external counterparties.
- Relevant experience at a top buy-side institution (hedge fund, prop trading firm).
Skills
- Market data strategy
- Contract negotiation
- Data governance
- Stakeholder engagement
- Vendor management
- Audit management
- Strategic thinking
- Problem-solving
Location
- New York
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Relevant experience at a top buy-side institution
Salary/Compensations
- $120,000-$170,000 base salary, plus eligible for discretionary bonus
Benefits
- Generous paid time off policies
- Savings plans and financial wellness tools
- Hybrid working opportunities
- Free breakfast, lunch, and snacks daily
- In-office wellness experiences and reimbursement
- Company-sponsored sports teams and fitness events
- Volunteer opportunities and charitable giving
- Social events, happy hours, treats, and celebrations
- Workshops and continuous learning opportunities
About the Company
- Tower Research Capital is a leading quantitative trading firm founded in 1998, built on a high-performance platform and independent trading teams with a 25+ year track record of innovation.
- Tower employs top systematic trading and engineering talent, empowering portfolio managers with independence and global organizational scale.
- Engineers develop world-class electronic trading infrastructure, solving challenges in low-latency programming, FPGA technology, hardware acceleration, and machine learning.
- The company invests continuously in engineering talent and technology to maintain an unmatched platform in functionality, scalability, and performance.
- Business Support teams are essential to building and maintaining the platform, enabling trading and engineering teams to perform at their best.
- Tower offers a stimulating, results-oriented environment where colleagues inspire each other.
- The company headquarters are in NYC's Financial District, with a global impact and over a dozen offices worldwide.
- Tower fosters a culture where smart, driven people thrive without egos, valuing a friendly, collaborative environment with an open concept workplace and casual dress code.
- The company values performance and enjoyment, with a collaborative and welcoming culture, a diverse team, and no unnecessary hierarchy.
Equal Opportunity
- Tower Research Capital is an equal opportunity employer.