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You’ll migrate the platform’s market data integration from the deprecated LSEG/Refinitiv Robust Foundation API (RFA) to the Real-Time SDK (RTSDK), preserving trading behaviour, performance and reliability through a phased rollout.\nYou’ll work hands-on in an existing Java codebase, tracing how the platform consumes futures and options market data, mapping exchange fields and behaviour to RTSDK, and making the application and shared library changes needed for production.\nKey responsibilitiesCompare RFA and RTSDK market data fields across supported futures and options exchanges. Document differences and assess their impact on trading workflows and downstream processing.\nDesign and implement the RTSDK integration in the Java application and shared framework libraries. 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