Group Technology enables and empowers the bank with an efficient, nimble and resilient infrastructure through a strategic focus on productivity, quality & control, technology, people capability and innovation. In Group Tech, we manage the majority of the Bank's operational processes and inspire to delight our business partners through our multiple banking delivery channels.
Job Purpose
Support and operate the bank's enterprise market data platforms and vendor feeds to ensure stable, resilient, and compliant delivery of real-time and reference data to trading and business applications across cloud and on-premises environments.
Key Accountabilities
- Ensure availability, stability, and capacity of market data platforms supporting front-office and critical business services.
- Manage vendor relationships for operational matters, including incident resolution, service performance, and change coordination.
- Oversee incident, problem, and change management to minimize business impact and prevent recurrence.
- Partner with Application, Infrastructure, and Business stakeholders on platform changes, onboarding, and strategic initiatives.
- Maintain strong governance on data usage, entitlement controls, and regulatory and audit requirements.
Responsibilities
- Provide L1/L2 operational support for enterprise market data platforms (e.g. LSEG RTDS, Bloomberg B-pipe, exchange feeds) across AWS and on-premises infrastructure.
- Proactively monitor platform health, troubleshoot issues, and coordinate recovery to meet availability targets.
- Act as the primary liaison with vendors and exchanges for production incidents, data queries, and technical changes.
- Plan and execute production activities including upgrades, migrations, failover testing, and resilience enhancements.
- Support onboarding of new applications and data services, ensuring alignment with architecture and governance standards.
- Collaborate with Market Data Admin and Commercial teams on entitlement, usage reviews, and audit requests.
- Maintain operational documentation and continuously improve monitoring and automation capabilities.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience supporting market data platforms such as LSEG RTDS, Bloomberg B-pipe, or direct exchange feeds.
- Solid understanding of real-time data distribution, symbology, and entitlement models (e.g. DACS, EMRS).
- Experience supporting mission critical production systems with high availability requirements.
- Familiarity with Linus/Unix environments and scripting (Python/Bash/PowerShell).
- Exposure to AWS or hybrid cloud environments is advantageous.
- Working knowledge of ITSM processes (Incident, Problem, Change).
- Experience with monitoring and automation tools is preferred.
- Any experience with Trader Voice and Voice Recording (IPC, NTR, VFC) would be advantageous.
- Any experience with remote Windows desktop solutions would be useful.
- Strong ownership with a proactive and risk aware mindset.
- Effective communicator with the ability to engage both technical teams and business stakeholders.
- Able to operate in a fast-paced production environment with sound judgement during incidents.
- Organized, dependable, and capable of managing competing priorities.
- Collaborative team player with a service-oriented approach.
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We offer a competitive salary and benefits package and the professional advantages of a dynamic environment that supports your development and recognises your achievements.