
Market Data Specialist, Metadata at Jane Street (London England, United Kingdom)
Jane Street· London England, United Kingdom·
Job description
About the Position
We’re looking for a Market Data Specialist to join our Metadata team, working on improving and supporting our internal golden copy Security Master and Corporate Action Management systems. You’ll be responsible for configuring our systems to improve data quality, helping with data cleaning and validation, solving support issues for internal clients, and interfacing with our data providers.
You’ll be embedded into the Metadata Systems Engineering team and will work with software developers, traders, and operations professionals across the firm.
Responsibilities include:
- Investigating data quality and reliability issues
- Interfacing with exchanges or data vendors, raising, tracking, and resolving issues
- Helping us (the Metadata team and internal clients) understand our data better
- Potentially advising on solutions, e.g., changing monitoring
- Configuring internal services/tools and adding overrides
About You
- Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills
- Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills
- Experience with financial instrument metadata, especially reference data preferred
- Programming experience in any language and knowledge of SQL or other database language(s)
- Confident in a Linux/Unix command-line-driven environment
- Responsible, organised, and great attention to detail
- Operations, support, and customer-centric experience a plus
- Fluency in English required
If you're a recruiting agency and want to partner with us, please reach out to agency-partnerships@janestreet.com.
Why work at Jane Street
- Culture: Described as “open and collaborative,” with porous boundaries between trading, research, and technology. Intellectual humility and curiosity are highly valued.
- Learning & Development: Offers immersive internships, multi-day programs, direct mentorship, and a week abroad for interns. Full-time employees have access to extensive internal training, a library, and classrooms in every office.
- Work Environment: Most employees write code as part of their regular work. The firm is known for its technical excellence and for using the most advanced tools available.
- Benefits: Daily breakfast and lunch, fully-stocked kitchens, on-site gyms, nursing suites, quiet rooms, recreation spaces, health services, and more. Offices are designed for collaboration and deep focus.
- Remote/Hybrid Policy: Not explicitly stated, but the firm emphasizes in-person collaboration on trading floors. Offices are located in major global cities.
- Diversity: Actively seeks people from all backgrounds and emphasizes that the company is only as strong as its people.