Bloomberg runs on data, and in Data we're responsible for on-boarding, analyzing, and supplying it to our clients for their financial data needs. Across the Broker and Company Disclosed data teams, we move markets by providing our clients with sought-after, reported-on, and broker-estimated financials that are normalized across companies, key analytical ratios, and industry-specific data points. More than 320,000 business leaders rely on the real-time financial information available on the Bloomberg Professional Service. Our products run on intelligence and industry-specific insight provided by Data’s Company Financials team. Our team of Analysts influences investment decisions and moves the markets every day, and we are growing.

The Role

You know the market data protocols and terminology that a market uses to describe its trading activities and the key features and the asset class attributes that trade on them. You engage with internal and external partners and thrive on developing and enforcing standards. As a natural problem solver, you thrive on building innovative and harmonious solutions to complex problems! We are responsible for normalising real-time market data feeds from exchanges. This includes managing projects, building relationships, negotiating contracts and exploring business opportunities with the exchanges.

As a Data Modeler you will be responsible for maintaining the standards and improving the features of the market data model that supports our exchange content globally working closely with exchanges Product Owners, Engineering, Enterprise Solutions and Exchanges to ensure consistent coverage of exchange products to our Bloomberg customers. You will help to define and maintain the needed relationships and metadata within the model building products and services for the future. We are looking for a highly creative and motivated individual to join the exchange Data and Business team. You will have prior experience with market data, their specifications and modelling key events that occur in a trading day into a proprietary data model. This is an exciting opportunity for individuals who enjoy working in a dynamic, deadline driven environment to deliver the highest quality real-time data to our customers across all asset classes such as equities, derivatives, commodities & fixed income!

We'll trust you to:

• Understand the key features and attributes of all asset classes that drive data model determinations, the key market data events and their impact on the end-to-end systems and applications
• Enforce the standards of the market data model by proactively reviewing venues that are being integrated into the existing normalized market data events and recommend enhancements to further align the Bloomberg Data model
• Work with Engineering to make changes to key systems for exchange market data processing
• Identify growing trends in markets and translate them into new features of the Bloomberg Data model
• Contribute to the evolution of products, platforms and services in support of business and technology initiatives
• Be involved with various aspects of the project life cycle from requirements and implementation design to development, release and QA/troubleshooting
• Be an escalation point for any issues with exchange market data behaviour within the market data model

You'll need to have:

• Minimum 5 years of Market Data experience in financial markets, including exchanges/market data providers/financial institutions
• Professional experience of asset classes including Equities/Derivatives/Fixed Income
• Demonstrated experience in at least one of the following programming languages: Python, Excel, SQL, VBA
• Understanding of market data conventions, such as how securities are traded and criteria to update calculated data points
• Demonstrated experience in business process re-engineering and business modeling concepts
• A desire to learn, be data-oriented with a strong with work ethic
• Comfort with a high degree of autonomy, and shown ability in managing priorities from multiple internal and external partners
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
• Demonstrated continuous career growth within an organisation
• Demonstrated experience in functional analysis and mapping skills including a thorough understanding of how to interpret market data provider specifications and how to apply them to a normalized market data model
• A passion for financial markets and an understanding of exchange real-time pricing and reference data and the ability to collaborate closely with multiple partners

 
We'd love to see:

• The ability to normalize raw exchange data into a proprietary data model
• Product Development and Product Management experience
• Familiarity with feed handler or message processing software development
• Hands on SDLC experience and an appetite for debugging
• Experience in SQL, Unix

If this sounds like you:

Apply! We'll get in touch to let you know what the next steps are.

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