Market Data Engineer Job in Bengaluru at Millennium

Millennium is hiring for the role of Market Data Engineer!

Responsibilities of the Candidate:

• Support and management of both enterprise and latency-sensitive real-time market data environments, including management of internal, vendor, and exchange-initiated changes.
• Design and engineering of components to automate support and management capabilities for the market data platform, including monitoring, real-time and historic metrics collection and visualization, and administrative functions, including self-service user-facing tools.
• Liaise with users of the market data environment, including portfolio managers, trading desks, and core technology teams.
• Enhance processes and workflows related to the operation of the market data platform, such as release deployment, incident management, and remediation, and exchange notification handling.
• Assist with close partnership with application and infrastructure support teams, including the definition of clear support runbooks and high-quality platform documentation.

Requirements:

• Technical experience supporting market data environments within a global organization, including both internally developed DMA feed handlers and vendor distribution infrastructure (e.g. Refinitiv, Bloomberg)
• Strong understanding of market data concepts and functionality, such as data models (fields/messages), protocols (e.g., snapshot + delta), order book representations (e.g., L1/L2/L3), recovery, and reliability.
• Hands-on site reliability engineering or DevOps skills, including system administration, automation, measurement, release/deployment management, component design, scripting, and coding.
• Experience in monitoring, metrics, and command/control functionality for distributed market data platforms; ability to evaluate existing solutions and drive enhancements through coordination of development and operations teams.
• Ability to prioritize in a fast-moving, high-pressure, constantly changing environment.
• Demonstrate thoroughness and strong ownership of work through a detail-oriented approach.
• Effective communication and relationship management skills (client and vendor): The candidate will be expected to work closely with business and technology users to understand their current and future needs.
• Interest and experience in software development (preferably C++ or Python).
• Working knowledge of at least one cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Solid understanding of modern OS concepts and the internals of Linux.
• Solid understanding of network engineering (TCP/IP protocol understanding with MCAST distribution systems is a must-have).
• Experience with open-source or commercial messaging middleware technologies.