This is a strategic, hands on, standalone role that blends market data vendor management, technical capability, and business engagement.
I need someone with Financial Service experience ideally Wealth Manager, below are the key components of the role
Market Data Vendor Oversight
Identify and catalogue current market data feeds managed by business teams
Engage business stakeholders to understand data needs.
Assess overlapping vendor feeds
Drive cost savings, synergies, and vendor consolidation where possible.
Support decommissioning or renegotiation of feeds.Procurement & Contractual Understanding
Work closely with procurement teams.
Understand contract obligations and typical market data vendor operating models.
Technical & Data CapabilityThe role sits in the data department, so the candidate must be technically capable:
Understand data architecture and how feeds land in Snowflake.
Ability to run SQL queries, investigate data, and compare feeds.
Familiarity with concepts like EDP, data lakes, ingestion of PDFs, etc.
Should be able to use AI/tools to automate comparisons.
Not reliant on data engineers/analysts for basic tasks