Market Data Engineer

About Marex

Marex Group plc (NASDAQ: MRX) is a diversified global financial services platform providing essential liquidity, market access and infrastructure services to clients across energy, commodities and financial markets. The group provides comprehensive breadth and depth of coverage across four core services: clearing, agency and execution, market making, and hedging and investment solutions. It has a leading franchise in many major metals, energy and agricultural products, with access to 60 exchanges. The group provides access to the world’s major commodity markets, covering a broad range of clients that include some of the largest commodity producers, consumers and traders, banks, hedge funds and asset managers. With more than 40 offices worldwide, the group has over 3000 employees across Europe, Asia and the Americas.

For more information visit https://www.marex.com/

Job Reference: VN2893

Overview of Marex / Department description

Marex Group plc (NASDAQ: MRX) is a diversified global financial services platform providing essential liquidity, market access and infrastructure services to clients across energy, commodities and financial markets. The group provides comprehensive breadth and depth of coverage across four core services: clearing, agency and execution, market making, and hedging and investment solutions. It has a leading franchise in many major metals, energy and agricultural products, with access to 60 exchanges. The group provides access to the world’s major commodity markets, covering a broad range of clients that include some of the largest commodity producers, consumers and traders, banks, hedge funds and asset managers. With more than 40 offices worldwide, the group has over 3,000 employees across Europe, Asia and the Americas. 

Marex has unique access across markets with significant share globally both on and off exchange. The depth of knowledge amongst its teams and divisions provides its customers with clear advantage, and its technology-led service provides access to all major exchanges, order-flow management via screen, voice and DMA, plus award-winning data, insights and analytics. 

The Technology Department delivers secure, scalable digital tools, software services, and infrastructure across all business units. Agile development teams align with specific business areas, while other teams handle enterprise-wide IT operations, support, security, and architecture. 

The Data & AI team drives productivity, compliance, and insights by leveraging a robust Data Lakehouse, decentralizing data access, improving client experiences, promoting data-driven practices, and ensuring efficient, auditable use of data in line with commercial terms. 

Role Summary

Role specific: 

• Architect and develop enhancements to the Security Master Platform, improving data quality, processing speed, and scalability at enterprise scale. 
• Design and implement robust ETL pipelines to extract, transform, and load reference data from the Bloomberg Data License or alternate vendor APIs and/or file feeds. 
• Build extensible frameworks to onboard new market data vendors and alternative reference data sources as business requirements evolve. 
• Write, optimise, and maintain complex, high-performance SQL queries, stored procedures, and schemas tailored for large-scale financial datasets. 
• Develop and maintain RESTful services using C#, .NET Core/.NET 8+, and Minimal APIs, following modern secure development practices. 
• Provide day-to-day operational support to ensure seamless execution of daily data loads, batch processing, and data distribution. 
• Monitor the platform proactively, troubleshoot data discrepancies, and rapidly resolve production issues to minimise downstream impact on trading and risk systems. 
• Implement automated data validation rules and monitoring alerts to safeguard the accuracy and completeness of Security Master data. 
• Develop usage-tracking capabilities across downstream data consumers to identify and eliminate unused feeds and data duplication, supporting commercial and cost optimisation. 

All staff: 

• Ensuring compliance with the company’s regulatory requirements under the FCA. 
• Adhere to the operational risk framework for your role ensuring that all regulatory or company determined parameters are complied with. 
• Role model for demonstrating highest level standards of integrity and conduct and reflecting Company Values. 
• At all times complying with the FCA’s Code of Conduct. 
• To ensure that you are fully aware of and adhere to internal policies that relate to you, your role or any other activities for which you have any level of responsibility. 
• To report any breaches of policy to Compliance and/ or your supervisor as required. 
• To escalate risk events immediately. 
• To provide input to risk management processes, as required. 

The Company may require you to carry out other duties from time to time 

Competencies, Skills and Experience 

Core Competencies 

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. 

• A collaborative team player, approachable, self-efficient and influences a positive work environment. 

• Exceptional analytical skills, with the ability to debug complex data lineage issues under time-sensitive constraints. 

• Resilient and adaptable, comfortable balancing structured development work with fast-paced operational demands. 

• Ability to take a high level of responsibility in a fast-paced and high-volume environment. 

• Excels at building relationships, networking and influencing others across technical and business teams. 

Essential: 
Skills and Experience 

• Strong commercial experience developing enterprise applications using C# and .NET Core/.NET 8+. 

• Experience building and maintaining RESTful services using Minimal APIs and modern .NET practices, including async programming, dependency injection, and API performance optimisation. 

• Advanced SQL expertise — writing optimised queries, managing indexes, stored procedures, functions, and views, and debugging complex transactional logic. 

• Strong understanding of query execution plans, indexing strategies, transaction management, and database performance tuning. 

• Experience designing scalable relational database schemas for high-volume financial data platforms. 

• Proven experience working with financial reference data and a strong understanding of various asset classes. 

• Hands-on experience with Bloomberg Data License fields, file formats (per-security requests, bulk files), and FTP/API delivery mechanisms. 

• Experience building robust ETL pipelines for ingesting, validating, transforming, and distributing financial market data. 

• Experience deploying and supporting applications on AWS, including EC2, IAM, S3, and Redis. 

• Experience building and maintaining containerised applications using Docker. 

• Experience developing modern web applications using React, with familiarity in JavaScript/TypeScript and component-based architecture. 

• Experience using Git for source control, and implementing CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment. 

Desirable,
Skills and Experience 

• Familiarity with other market data providers (e.g., LSEG/Refinitiv, S&P, ICE). 

• Proficiency in a scripting language to automate file transfers, parsing, system alerts, and operational workflows. 

• Experience implementing secure authentication and authorisation mechanisms for enterprise applications. 

• Understanding of responsive UI design and state management in front-end applications. 

• Familiarity with infrastructure automation and release management processes. 

Conduct Rules, You must:

• Act with integrity
• Act with due skill, care and diligence
• Be open and cooperative with the FCA, the PRA and other regulators
• Pay due regard to the interests of customers and treat them fairly
• Observe proper standard of market conduct
• Act to deliver good outcomes for retail customers

Company Values 

Be collaborative - by working together across the organisation, we foster teamwork, can better respond to challenges and successfully deliver for our clients

Act with integrity - we pride ourselves on our honesty and high ethical standards. We apply these values when working with all our clients, colleagues and other stakeholders

Be adaptable and entrepreneurial - we embrace change as markets evolve to constantly increase our efficiency and create innovative solutions for our clients. We are interested in the world around us and inquisitive about understanding the challenges and opportunities our clients face.

Be respectful – how we treat each other, and our clients says everything about who we are. We always act respectfully and treat people fairly in everything we do.

Nurture talent – we aim to grow our own talent and make Marex the place ambitious, hardworking and talented people choose to build their career. This means giving and taking stretch opportunities, taking risks, and committing to career development and support – for ourselves and our teams.

Marex is fully committed to being an inclusive employer and providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all. We will provide reasonable adjustments to remove any disadvantage to you being considered for this role. We value the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the company.  We welcome applications from candidates returning to the workforce.  Also, Marex is committed to avoiding circumstances in which the appearance or possibility of conflicts of interest may exist within the hiring process.

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