Director of Data Services

The role

The Director of Data Services will own market data platforms and analytical data systems. This role involves managing a small team while writing production code, reviewing designs, and debugging systems. The person will ensure market data is captured, normalized, stored, and delivered correctly for trading systems, researchers, and AI-driven tools.

What you will do

• Own the market data pipeline from ingestion through normalization and near-real-time delivery
• Integrate direct exchange feed capture alongside third-party vendor data
• Build and improve replay, recovery, and gap-detection capabilities
• Design, maintain, and improve KDB+/Q platforms
• Manage schema design, partitioning, and query-performance tuning
• Deliver data reliably to downstream consumers through streaming and messaging
• Build internal tooling, validation, monitoring, and analytics tools
• Write production code and review pull requests and technical designs
• Work with trading and research teams to understand needs
• Debug production issues during market hours

Required qualifications

• At least 7 years of experience in data engineering, market data infrastructure, or a closely related area
• Current hands-on production coding experience
• At least 3 years leading engineers while staying technically involved
• Strong KDB+/Q experience, including complex Q, tick architecture, query tuning, and production HDB troubleshooting
• Strong production Python experience, including tested, packaged, maintainable systems-level code
• Experience building low-latency decoders for real exchange protocols
• Strong understanding of multicast, packet capture, sequencing, and gap detection
• Comfortable working in Linux and using tools such as perf, strace, tcpdump, and numactl
• Able to own production issues directly

Nice to have

• Background in high-frequency trading, market making, proprietary trading, or another latency-sensitive environment
• C or C++ experience for performance-critical decoder or capture components
• Experience with kernel-bypass or high-performance networking technologies
• Experience with streaming platforms used in real-time data pipelines
• Working knowledge of binary market data encoding standards
• Contributions to open-source data tooling, market data systems, or quantitative research infrastructure

Benefits

• Competitive total rewards package
• Comprehensive benefits program

About the company

Geneva Trading is a proprietary trading firm focused on high-frequency and algorithmic trading across global markets. Founded in 1999, it is a global principal trading firm with offices in Chicago, Dublin, and London.