Market Data Integration Lead

Salary: £68,000 - 108,000 per year

Requirements

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related discipline.
• Proven experience in market data engineering, market data integration, or market data transformation within Financial Services or a trading house, with direct experience supporting Commodities or Energy trading desks.
• Strong understanding of energy markets including Gas, Power, LNG, Carbon, Environmental Products, and related commodities.
• Proven experience assessing and optimising complex market data ecosystems.
• Hands-on experience working with market data from Trayport and E-Star platforms.
• Strong understanding of exchange-traded and OTC market structures and associated market data flows.
• Strong knowledge of Bloomberg, Refinitiv/LSEG, ICE, CME, S&P Global Platts, Argus, and related market data services.
• Experience integrating data through REST APIs, FIX, WebSockets, SFTP, streaming technologies, and vendor SDKs.
• Strong programming capabilities in Python, C#, SQL, and modern integration technologies.
• Practical experience with Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, and cloud-native data platforms.
• Experience working with Kafka, Solace, RMDS/TREP, and real-time messaging technologies.
• Experience with automation platforms including Airflow, Azure Data Factory, Ansible, Power Automate, or similar tooling.
• Strong understanding of market data licensing, entitlement management, and redistribution controls.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives across global trading operations, Risk, and Technology organisations.
• Nice to have: experience with market data inventory and governance platforms.
• Nice to have: familiarity with Chief Data Office operating models and data governance frameworks.
• Nice to have: experience implementing metadata management, lineage, observability, and data quality capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Head of Market Data & Trading Tools to execute our market data strategy, roadmap, and operating model across Shell Energy Trading.
• Translate strategic priorities into scalable integration capabilities, adoption plans, standards, and measurable business outcomes across Front Office, Risk, Quants, Finance, Operations, Technology, and ETRM platforms.
• Assess our current market data landscape across trading, risk, analytics, and operational platforms to identify opportunities for simplification, rationalisation, reuse, cost optimisation, improved governance, and reduced duplication.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, vendor solutions, and industry trends to inform future-state integration capabilities.
• Drive adoption of CDO-enabled market data platforms and services across Front Office, Risk, Quants, Finance, Operations, Technology, ETRM platforms, analytics environments, and downstream business applications.
• Establish standard onboarding and integration patterns to ensure market data consumers adopt strategic capabilities consistently and efficiently.
• Lead technical onboarding and integration of market data from trading platforms, execution venues, vendors, exchanges, brokers, and OTC markets, including Trayport, E-Star, Bloomberg, Refinitiv/LSEG, ICE, CME, S&P Global Platts, Argus, Wood Mackenzie, and other strategic providers.
• Drive standard connectivity approaches using APIs, streaming services, SDKs, SFTP, vendor-native interfaces, and enterprise-approved integration patterns.
• Partner with Technology teams and vendors on evaluations, proof-of-concepts, technical due diligence, and onboarding activities.
• Act as the senior technical authority for market data integration technologies, engineering standards, reference architectures, and reusable integration frameworks.
• Promote API-first design, event-driven architecture, cloud-native patterns, automation, observability, resilience, and scalable support models across relevant technologies.
• Partner with governance, compliance, audit, commercial, and technology stakeholders to strengthen market data governance, data quality, lineage, observability, licensing compliance, entitlement management, redistribution controls, and operational risk management.
• Improve transparency of market data ownership, usage, consumption, and lifecycle controls across Shell Energy Trading.
• Act as the recognised subject matter authority during material incidents involving market data feeds, partnering with vendors and internal teams to support resolution and service improvement.
• Build strong relationships with trading desks, Quants, Risk, Finance, Operations, Technology, Architecture, vendors, and governance teams.
• Lead through influence rather than line management, partnering with Technology teams, vendors, and a broader matrix of delivery and commercial stakeholders to execute against the strategy.
• Partner on subscription onboarding, commercial engagement, documentation, knowledge sharing, and adoption of enterprise market data capabilities.
• Maintain documentation for data sources, integration patterns, data dictionaries, and operational runbooks within the CDO knowledge base to enable self-service adoption.
• Identify opportunities to optimise market data expenditure through consolidation, rationalisation, improved utilisation of strategic platforms and services, and reduction of redundant subscriptions.

Technologies

• Airflow
• API
• Ansible
• Azure
• C#
• Cloud
• Databricks
• Support
• Kafka
• Matrix
• Mobile
• Python
• REST
• SQL
• Snowflake
• AWS
• Excel
• Security

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We are Shell Energy Trading, part of Shell in the United Kingdom and a leading global energy business with a long history in the UK. This senior role sits within our Market Data & Trading Tools capability and is based in London, York Road, on a full-time basis. We offer flexible working hours, the possibility of remote/mobile working, competitive pay, paid parental leave, access to training and development programmes, and opportunities to work with experienced colleagues in a values-led, inclusive, and psychologically safe environment. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientations, and life experiences to apply, and we support reasonable accommodations for candidates who need accessibility adjustments.

last updated 34 week of 2026