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Must have strong financial market data knowledge and C# development experience to build, maintain, and support market data feed handlers and downstream data processing systems.\nThe role spans Equities, Futures, Options, Foreign Exchange (FX), and Fixed Income, working with vendors such as ICE, Refinitiv, S&P and other market data providers. The ideal candidate has practical experience integrating market data feeds, processing real-time trades and quotes, managing reference data and pricing data, and developing reliable production systems.\nThis person will work across our existing SQL Server environment and Snowflake cloud data platform to ensure market data is accurate, complete, reliable, and available for downstream Trade Cost Analysis (TCA) and analytics applications. The role requires strong hands-on technical skills, independent problem-solving, and the ability to support critical production data processes.\nTech Stack\nLanguages: C#, SQL, Python - scripting experience\nDatabases: Microsoft SQL Server, Snowflake\nData Engineering: ETL/ELT, Apache Airflow, data pipelines\nCloud: AWS, including S3 and other AWS data services\nDevelopment: Git, CI/CD, Liquibase, automated testing and deployment\nData: Market data, trade data, transaction cost analysis, and financial data\nWhat Success looks like\nMarket data across supported asset classes is accurate, complete, and timely.\nVendor feeds are integrated correctly, with appropriate handling of interruptions and data recovery.\nMarket data feed handlers are reliable, performant, and maintainable.\nProduction issues can be independently diagnosed and resolved.\nC# feed processing and SQL Server/Snowflake data workflows are supported and continuously improved.\nKey Responsibilities\nVendor Feed Integration: Integrate and support market data feeds from ICE, Refinitiv, and other providers, including vendor-specific message formats, instrument identifiers, entitlements, and feed configuration.\nMulti-Asset Market Data: Support Equities, Futures, Options, FX, and Fixed Income market data, understanding asset-specific pricing, trading conventions, identifiers, and data requirements.\nReference Data: Develop and maintain instrument mappings, security and contract identifiers, exchange and venue mappings, currency attributes, and other reference data.\nPricing Data: Support end-of-day pricing, intraday pricing, historical data, and related data quality controls.\nC# Feed Handler Development: Develop, enhance, and maintain C# applications that connect to market data vendors, receive and process market data, and deliver data reliably to downstream systems.\nReal-Time Data Processing: Process intraday trades and quotes, including Level 1 top-of-book data and Level 2 market depth data, where supported by the feed.\nFeed Reliability and Performance: Troubleshoot feed interruptions, missing or delayed messages, data gaps, processing bottlenecks, and recovery scenarios. Improve application stability, throughput, and resilience.\nSQL Server Development: Write and optimize SQL queries, stored procedures, and data processing workflows that support market data storage and downstream applications.\nSnowflake Data Engineering: Develop and support Snowflake ingestion, transformations, validation, reconciliation, and analytical data workflows.\nPython and Automation: Use Python and scripting tools to automate validation, monitoring, reconciliation, and operational tasks.\nProduction Support: Investigate market data discrepancies, perform root-cause analysis, implement corrective actions, and support critical production processing and SLAs.\nPlatform Modernization: Help modernize market data processing and migrate appropriate data workflows from SQL Server to Snowflake and AWS-based infrastructure.\nCross-Team Collaboration: Work with TCA engineers, product teams, and other stakeholders to deliver new market data capabilities and maintain existing services.\nSkills, Knowledge and Expertise\nEducational Background:\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field.\nTechnical Skills:\nStrong working knowledge of Equities, Futures, Options, FX, and Fixed Income market data.\nHands-on experience with Snowflake and AWS Cloud services.\nStrong hands-on SQL development experience.\nStrong experience with Microsoft SQL Server, including complex queries, stored procedures, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.\nStrong debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills. \nUnderstanding reference data, instrument identifiers, symbology, exchange and venue mappings, end-of-day pricing, and intraday pricing.\nPractical experience integrating external market data feeds, preferably ICE, Refinitiv/LSEG, or comparable vendors.\nHands-on C# development experience building or maintaining feed handlers, market data applications, or other real-time data processing systems.\nAbility to independently troubleshoot production issues, own technical deliverables, and work with minimal supervision.\n Preferred Experience:\nFamiliarity with vendor APIs, feed protocols, entitlement management, and vendor-specific message formats.\nExperience with high-volume market data, tick data, trade and quote normalization, and market data quality controls.\nExperience with Snowflake, AWS/S3, and Apache Airflow or similar orchestration tools.\nExperience with SQL Server performance tuning and large-scale data processing. \nExperience supporting Trade Cost Analysis (TCA), trading analytics, or financial market data platforms.\nExperience with Apache Airflow or similar orchestration technologies.\nExperience with AWS, particularly S3 and data services.\nExperience with Git, CI/CD, Liquibase and automated deployment processes.\nExperience with data quality, reconciliation, and data governance.\nExperience with Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) or other financial analytics.\nSnowflake or AWS certification.\nAI-Assisted Development:\nWe encourage engineers to use modern AI-assisted development tools, such as Claude Code to accelerate development, debugging, testing, refactoring, and migration work.\nCandidates should understand how to use AI effectively while independently validating generated code for correctness, security, performance, and maintainability.\nBenefits\nCompetitive Benefits & Perks We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your well-being, growth, and work-life balance.\n Health & Financial Security:Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance\nFlexible Spending Accounts (FSA) & Health Savings Accounts (HSA)\n401(k) retirement plan\nPre-tax transit and parking benefits\n\n Time Off & Flexibility:Enjoy the best of both worlds: the energy and collaboration of in-person work, combined with the convenience and focus of remote days. This is a hybrid position requiring three days of in-office collaboration per week, with the flexibility to work remotely for the remaining two days. Our hybrid model is designed to balance individual flexibility with the benefits of in-person collaboration, enhanced team cohesion, spontaneous innovation, hands-on mentorship opportunities and strengthens our company culture.\n22 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year, with the option to roll over unused days.\nOne dedicated day per year for volunteering.\nTwo professional development days per year to allow uninterrupted professional development.\nAn additional PTO day added during milestone anniversary years.\nRobust paid holiday schedule with early dismissal.\nGenerous parental leave for all parents (including adoptive parents).\n\nWork-Life Support & Resources:Budget for tech accessories, including monitors, headphones, keyboards, and other office equipment.\nBackup child and pet care, as well as tutoring services.\nMilestone anniversary bonuses.\n\n Wellness & Lifestyle Perks:Stipend and subsidy contributions toward personally-owned cell phones\nContributions for gym memberships and health/wellness initiatives.\nDiscounted healthcare premiums.\nHealthy meal delivery program subsidies.\n\nTrading Technologies (www.tradingtechnologies.com) is a global capital markets platform services company providing market-leading technology for the end-to-end trading operations of Tier 1 banks, brokerages, money managers, hedge funds, proprietary traders, Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs), commercial hedgers, and risk managers. With its roots in listed derivatives, the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company delivers “multi-X” solutions, with “X” representing asset classes, functions, workflows, and geographies. This multi-X approach features trade execution services across futures and options, fixed income, foreign exchange (FX), and cryptocurrencies, augmented by solutions for data and analytics, including transaction cost analysis (TCA); quantitative trading; compliance and trade surveillance; clearing and post-trade allocation; and infrastructure services. The award-winning TT platform ecosystem also helps exchanges deliver innovative solutions to their market participants and technology companies to distribute their complementary offerings to Trading Technologies’ clients.\n\nTrading Technologies is backed by leading global investment firms Thoma Bravo, one of the world’s largest and most experienced software investors, and 7Ridge, a global growth equity firm focused on technology-enabled businesses.\nThis investment supports Trading Technologies’ continued focus on product innovation, platform scalability, and long-term growth for customers and partners worldwide.\n\nTrading Technologies (TT) is an equal-opportunity employer. Equal employment has been, and continues to be, a required practice at the Company. Trading Technologies’ practice of equal employment opportunity is to recruit, hire, train, promote, and base all employment decisions on ability rather than race, color, religion, national origin, sex/gender orientation, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information, parental status, veteran, or any other protected status. 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