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Data Specialist
New York, New York, United States
Open 6 months, first seen by us 204 days ago- Pay
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- Employment
Full-time — employment source
Employment type in the employer’s posting: Full-Time: Experienced
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What you’ll work on
Full postingAnalyze, onboard, and validate large data sets from many sources
Raise, track, and resolve data issues with exchanges and data vendors
Work with developers, traders and operations to define data requirements
Build domain knowledge to help interpret and consume the firm's data
From the employer’s posting
analyzing, onboarding, validating, and producing large data sets from many different sources
interface directly with exchanges and data vendors to raise, track, and resolve issues
collaborate closely with your direct team and trading desks to understand requirements and improve our software
develop deep domain knowledge to help interpret and consume our data
What you’ll bring
All qualificationsCore experience
- Strong data analysis, debugging, and troubleshooting skills
- Experience using SQL and relational databases
- Programming experience in any language
- Responsible, organised, with great attention to detail
- Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills
Preferred experience
- Operations, support, or project coordination experience
- Prior experience with financial data
Qualification wording
Strong data analysis, debugging, and troubleshooting skills
Experience using SQL and relational databases
Programming experience in any language
Responsible, organised, with great attention to detail
Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills
Operations, support, and/or project coordination experience is a plus
prior experience with financial data would be nice
Posting record
Report an errorOpen 6 monthsWe first saw this posting 204 days ago and it is still up. Roles open this long are often slow to fill or kept open to collect applications.
- Status in our records
- Live
- First seen by us
- Apr 14, 2026204 days ago
- Recorded sightings
- 216
- Last seen by us
- Nov 4, 2026
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- Programming experience in any language - Experience using SQL and relational databases - Responsible, organised, with great attention to detail
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About the role
We file this job under Data Operations, by the work the posting describes.
Data operations staff do the day-to-day work of getting data processed correctly: loading and checking files, moving records between systems, fixing errors and following set procedures.
Expect Excel, some SQL, close attention to detail, and knowledge of the particular systems the company runs.
Data governance sets the rules for the data; data operations does the hands-on work of processing it and keeping it moving.
Job description
About the Position
We're looking for a Data Specialist to help us understand, improve, and maintain the data that fuels our trading. You'll be embedded in an engineering team and will work closely with software developers, traders, and operations professionals across the firm.
Meeting the needs of these groups involves diverse types of work including analyzing, onboarding, validating, and producing large data sets from many different sources. You'll collaborate closely with your direct team and trading desks to understand requirements and improve our software. In this role, you will interface directly with exchanges and data vendors to raise, track, and resolve issues critical to our trading as well as develop deep domain knowledge to help interpret and consume our data, driving business growth in new areas.
About You
- Strong data analysis, debugging, and troubleshooting skills
- Programming experience in any language
- Experience using SQL and relational databases
- Responsible, organised, with great attention to detail
- Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills
- Operations, support, and/or project coordination experience is a plus
While prior experience with financial data would be nice, we don’t expect you to have a finance background.
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