Data Management Lead

• Work with market data consumers to understand and gather requirements, and produce business specifications, functional design, and associated documentation.
• Analyze market data requirements for all investible asset classes, identify relevant data sources, conduct data comparisons, evaluate data qualities, and create optimum data flows.
• Understand problem definitions, address problems systematically, provide options, and recommend solutions.
• Document market data onboarding specifications and coordinate delivery with the technology team.
• Assist with front office risk monitoring and reporting including writing queries to extract information from databases for screening, investment decision-making, valuation, tasks, and reports.
• Ensure data validation throughout testing and implementation phases to meet business and functional requirements. Adhere to and develop best practices supporting internal Project Management Standards. Ensure business reporting needs are met with the most elegant and timely technology solutions. Ensure proper development life cycle is followed with artifacts to support internal audit and any inquiries. Provide post-implementation support and investigation of issues.

Job Qualifications:

• Practical and detailed knowledge of investment securities, standards, security master, identifiers, quotes, prices, and volume across asset classes.
• Experience working with known Market Data vendors like Reuters, Bloomberg, etc.
• Minimum 5 years of direct experience in market data, trading (bond desk), and investment operations.
• Demonstrated experience with Bloomberg terminal (such as PORT and data license usage) and market data standards for Investment management in the Equity and Fixed income space.
• Experience with databases, data mapping, and query & reporting tools.
• Experience with systems integrations involving trades, data transfers, messaging protocols, and mapping of attributes.
• Sound understanding of the typical trade life cycle.
• Excellent documentation, analytical, and process-based skills to produce process flow diagrams, business modeling, and functional design documents.
• Strong interpersonal, collaboration, and presentation skills.
• Ability to prioritize and meet deadlines.
• University degree or College certification in a relevant discipline.
• Familiarity with reporting solutions such as Tableau, PowerBI, and Wyn is an added advantage.