Market Data Feeds Analyst
New York, NY
Posted May 2, 2017 - Requisition No. 58329
Bloomberg consumes data from financial markets all over the world. This data varies depending on the different protocols and terminology that a market uses to describe their trading activity. It is the translation of this data into normalized streams and standard market events and fields that drives the core functionality of Bloomberg products and analytics. As financial markets continue to evolve their technologies and products, so does the need for maintaining these standard events that provide consistency and transparency in behavior.
The Market Data Feed Analyst Team is a global team that analyzes the real-time market data from hundreds of exchanges and financial institutions all over the world and develops, maintains and enforce the standards to normalize their data into the Bloomberg market data model. The team works with all of the business and programming areas responsible for contributing real-time market data and the value added features that enrich the Bloomberg terminal and enterprise products.
The team is responsible for understanding market data activities and their impact on the end-to-end systems and applications. They are also familiar with the key features and attributes of all asset classes that drive data model determinations.
We'll trust you to:
- Assist with researching and modeling financial markets and their trading activities, proactively reviewing the existing normalized market data and recommend enhancements to further align the Bloomberg Data model
- Be involved with various aspects of the project life cycle from requirements and implementation design to development, release and QA/troubleshooting
- Ensure requirements to normalize Exchange data comply with standards and actively work with the Feed Handler software developers to make changes to key systems for Exchange market data
You'll need to have:
- A thorough understanding of market data conventions, such as how securities are traded and criteria to update calculated data points
- Experience analyzing Exchange market data sets and an understanding of how to interpret market data provider specifications and how to apply them to a normalized market data model
- 2+ years experience working on medium to large scale projects from requirements gathering to software roll-out
- Bachelor degree in finance, economics, information systems or related discipline
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
We'd love to see:
- An understanding of how to normalize exchange raw data into a proprietary data model
- An appreciation of financial products such as equity, fixed income and derivatives asset classes, their features and how they work
- Experience with working with market data, feed handler or message processing software development
- A passion for financial markets and an understanding of Exchange real-time pricing and reference data and liaising with multiple stakeholders
- Experience with Unix, Software repositories and scripting languages