Senior Market Data Specialist (f/m/d)

As Senior Market Data Specialist, you drive global market data sourcing and licensing across multiple units, shaping the enterprise data strategy with the Group Data team. You manage complex vendor relationships and negotiate terms to optimize commercial outcomes while ensuring governance, compliance, and usage controls. You contribute to a group-wide licensing framework and data mesh initiatives, enabling AI, automation, and data-driven decision making. You work with cross-functional stakeholders to balance risk, cost, and access to high-quality market data.

• Drive global market data sourcing across real-time, delayed, historical, reference, index, ratings, alternative, and derived data
• Own licensing categories including display, non-display, redistribution, derived data, index, benchmark, enterprise, application, and AI/model usage
• Negotiate with exchanges, data vendors, index providers, rating agencies, brokers, platforms, and other suppliers
• Develop and maintain a global licensing and usage control framework across entities and locations
• Partner with procurement, compliance, finance, technology, and business units to manage licensing, commercial risk and regulatory changes
• Provide commercial oversight of market data spend, budgeting, forecasting, and contract optimization
• Lead central and decentralized market data administration, inventory, entitlement, reporting, and data consuming teams

• 5+ years of market data management experience in financial services or related institutions
• Strong understanding of market data licensing, contracts, exchange policies, and consumption models
• Proven ability to manage cost, reduce risk, improve terms, and strengthen vendor governance
• Experience across multiple business lines, legal entities, and jurisdictions with cross-functional collaboration
• Knowledge of data governance, usage monitoring, entitlement management, and reporting
• Ability to communicate complex licensing and commercial issues to senior management
• Financial market data licensing certification is a plus (e.g., FISD)

• relationship management
• service-oriented mindset
• strong communication skills
• market data licensing
• vendor contracts
• exchange policies