Market Access Platform Lead

The role

You will manage and develop the team responsible for global market data platforms. You will combine people management, technical leadership and delivery ownership while working with exchanges, vendors, traders and internal technology teams.

What you will do

• Lead and develop a team of platform engineers through objectives, feedback, performance reviews and career development.
• Coach team members, support recruitment and onboarding, and promote technical ownership and knowledge sharing.
• Prioritise team capacity across production support, project delivery and platform improvements.
• Own the reliability, data quality and scalability of market data pipelines, including PCAP, PIDUMP and reference data.
• Provide technical direction and contribute to configuration, scripting, tooling and complex troubleshooting.
• Oversee infrastructure ownership, SIM/UAT environment provisioning and capacity planning.
• Improve testing, post-deployment validation, observability, automation and platform performance.
• Lead desk requests, exchange and vendor upgrades, and platform initiatives while managing dependencies, risks and stakeholder communication.

Required qualifications

• Proven experience directly managing a technical team, including coaching, performance management and professional development.
• Strong experience supporting or engineering market access, market data or comparable production platforms in a trading environment.
• Practical knowledge of financial markets, exchange data feeds and market data processing.
• Hands-on Python or Bash development and scripting skills.
• A track record of delivering technical projects and operational improvements across competing priorities and dependencies.
• Clear communication and sound judgement when working with traders, engineers, infrastructure teams and external providers.
• A proactive approach to ownership, attention to detail, reliable operations and clear documentation.

Nice to have

• C++ development, code changes and deployment workflows.
• Data or cloud engineering, including ingestion infrastructure and automated pipeline quality checks.
• Reliability engineering, DevOps, observability or performance tuning for latency-sensitive trading systems.

Benefits

• Initiatives and programmes to help employees achieve a healthy work-life balance.

About the company

QRT is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating across all liquid asset classes. It is a data- and technology-driven organisation applying scientific methods to investing.