Market Data Support Engineer, AVP

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Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 150,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.

Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.

The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day. A member of our recruitment team will provide more details.

Job Summary:

This position combines two roles: AVP Trading Floor Support Technologist and Market Data Engineer. As a member of the Market Data Engineering team, the individual will be responsible for engineering, ongoing support of back-end systems, and maintaining real-time market data pipelines for internal end-users including portfolio managers, research analysts, and other investment professionals. The role ensures stability, performance, and security of trading floor applications and market data infrastructure while delivering low-latency, high-availability data to trading platforms, risk systems, and downstream applications.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide 24x7 technical directions and support for Market Data and Trading Floor applications.
• Act as liaison among Market Data vendors, third-party trading application providers, internal users, infrastructure teams, and management.
• Work with various asset classes such as equities, options, futures, and other financial instruments to ensure timely and accurate data processing.
• Collaborate with product, trading, and risk teams to understand requirements and deliver high-quality solutions that meet business needs.
• Develop efficient mechanisms for integrating market data feeds from exchanges and other sources into systems.
• Troubleshoot and resolve performance issues, data discrepancies, and ensure data integrity across the pipeline.
• Continuously monitor the performance and health of data pipelines, identifying and mitigating potential issues before they impact system performance.
• Support APIs and services for real-time and batch data distribution.
• Optimize latency and throughput for streaming data pipelines.
• Implement monitoring for feed integrity and latency.
• Validate pricing and rates requirements before distribution.
• Work closely with trading desks, risk teams, and application developers to ensure data availability and accuracy.
• Perform help desk functions related to issue resolutions on behalf of trading floor end-users.
• Research new technologies for integration into technical infrastructure.
• Ensure compliance with security standards and regulatory
• Plan and implement major changes to trading floor applications and technologies; maintain and support local applications and data servers.
• Participate in BCP exercises and live events to ensure business continuity.

Skills & Experience:

• Minimum of 3 to 5 years’ experience in Information Technology related to trading floor technologies and market data delivery.
• Strong programming in Python and SQL; familiarity with Go or Java is a plus.
• Hands-on technical knowledge of Reuters TREP, Bloomberg BPIPE, server and desktop technologies, network concepts, and security architecture.
• Understanding of financial instruments, market data feeds, and vendor platforms (Bloomberg, Refinitiv, FactSet).
• Exposure to low-latency systems and high-volume data environments.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills; ability to interface with business units and guide technology solutions.
• Skilled in creating technical documentation.
• Knowledge of Information Security policies and best practices.
• Scripting experience is a strong plus.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Certifications in cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) are a plus.
• ITIL/COBIT certifications preferred.

Soft Skills

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced trading environment.
• Excellent communication, planning, organization, and collaboration skills.
• Customer service focused with a positive 'can-do' attitude.
• Ability to prioritize quickly and think on your feet.

Education:

•Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a closely-related discipline, or an equivalent combination of formal education and experience

“Visa sponsorship/support is based on business needs. We do not anticipate providing visa sponsorship/support for this position.”

The typical base pay range for this role is between $88k - $129k depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance-based bonuses and/or incentive compensation. Additionally, our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with the eligibility requirements and respective terms of each) that includes comprehensive health and wellness benefits, retirement plans, educational assistance and training programs, income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities, paid maternity and parental bonding leave, and paid vacation, sick days, and holidays. For more information on our Total Rewards package, please click the link below.

MUFG Benefits Summary

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws (including (i) the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, (ii) the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, (iii) the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, and (iv) the California Fair Chance Act) to the extent that (a) an applicant is not subject to a statutory disqualification pursuant to Section 3(a)(39) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 8a(2) or 8a(3) of the Commodity Exchange Act, and (b) they do not conflict with the background screening requirements of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the National Futures Association (NFA). The major responsibilities listed above are the material job duties of this role for which the Company reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of conditional offer of employment, if any.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required of personnel so classified.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to leveraging the diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experience of our workforce to create opportunities for our colleagues and our business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender expression, gender identity, sex, age, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran and military status, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status of an individual or that individual’s associates or relatives that is protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.