Qualifications
Your Core Responsibilities:Define and lead the U. S. Market Data team, overseeing the comprehensive market data landscape and its evolution. Contribute significantly to the global market data strategy, collaborating with regional teams to align standards, tools, and long-term goals. Manage and advance market data projects that directly support trading objectives and operational efficiencies. Identify, assess, and integrate new market and alternative data sets, ensuring each source adds tangible value to trading strategies. Provide high-level technical and architectural guidance on sourcing, normalizing, distributing, and utilizing market data across the organization. Establish and nurture strong, long-lasting relationships with external data vendors, exchanges, and strategic partners. Act as a mentor and subject-matter expert, offering training and insights to junior team members on essential market data concepts and best practices. Work closely with trading, technology, compliance, and risk teams (both locally and globally) to ensure seamless market data solutions integration. Ensure compliance of market data usage with regulatory mandates, exchange regulations, and internal policies, proactively mitigating risk and cost. Contribute to and help mold data governance, quality, and control frameworks, emphasizing accuracy, transparency, and scalability. Champion cost-effective market data practices, balancing commercial considerations with performance, risk management, and growth.
About the job
Global Market Data Manager
The Global Market Data Manager is pivotal in defining and implementing IMC’s market data strategy globally. This role ensures that data is sourced, governed, and delivered to effectively support trading, research, and risk management initiatives. Positioned at the crossroads of trading, technology, compliance, and vendor relations, you will be responsible for promoting standardization, transparency, and scalability while being attentive to regional requirements. As IMC continues to expand its global trading operations, you will spearhead efforts to centralize market data practices, enhance data usage tracking and compliance, and assess opportunities for building or acquiring data solutions. The ideal candidate will possess extensive industry experience, robust external relationships, and the credibility to serve as a trusted advisor to both traders and technologists.
About IMC Trading
IMC is a technology-driven trading firm and market maker, specializing in providing liquidity across financial markets globally. With a strong commitment to innovation and excellence, we leverage state-of-the-art technology and data analytics to optimize our trading strategies and enhance market efficiency.