Market Data Specialist, Metadata

Jane Street Jane Street · Quant · London, United Kingdom · Software Engineering

Jane Street is seeking a Market Data Specialist to join their Metadata team in London. This role focuses on enhancing and maintaining the firm's Security Master and Corporate Action Management systems. Responsibilities include configuring systems for data quality, data cleaning and validation, resolving internal client support issues, and liaising with data providers. The specialist will collaborate with software developers, traders, and operations professionals.

What you'd actually do

  1. Investigating data quality and reliability issues
  2. Interfacing with exchanges or data vendors, raising, tracking, and resolving issues
  3. Helping us (the Metadata team and internal clients) understand our data better
  4. Potentially advising on solutions, e.g., changing monitoring
  5. Configuring internal services/tools and adding overrides

Skills

Required

  • Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills
  • Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills
  • Programming experience in any language
  • Knowledge of SQL or other database language(s)
  • Confident in a Linux/Unix command-line-driven environment
  • Responsible, organised, and great attention to detail
  • Fluency in English

Nice to have

  • Experience with financial instrument metadata, especially reference data
  • Operations, support, and customer-centric experience