Market Data Specialist

Our client is an growing bank in Oman seeking a Market Data Specialist to manage and govern the bank's market data services and platforms. The role combines vendor management, platform administration, data governance, and transformation support, acting as the key point of contact for providers such as Bloomberg, Refinitiv, exchanges, and rating agencies.

Responsibilities

• Manage relationships, contracts, licensing, renewals, and costs associated with market data vendors such as Bloomberg, Refinitiv, exchanges, news providers, and rating agencies.
• Administer market data platforms, including user access, permissions, subscriptions, entitlements, and data feeds.
• Monitor data quality, integrity, and compliance with vendor licensing requirements.
• Support vendor audits, perform usage reviews, and identify opportunities for cost optimization and subscription rationalization.
• Manage onboarding of new market data services and coordinate with internal stakeholders and external providers.
• Participate in strategic initiatives related to migrations, transformation and IT projects.
• Maintain documentation, governance controls, knowledge repositories, and reporting related to market data services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Banking, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or a related field. Postgraduate qualifications are advantageous.
• Minimum 4 years of experience in market data, financial markets, banking technology, or a related domain.
• Strong knowledge of Bloomberg, Refinitiv/LSEG, B-Pipe, BDL, Eikon, EMS, DSS, and similar market data platforms.
• Understanding of financial markets, market data licensing, exchanges, financial instruments, and indices.
• Experience in vendor management, governance, audits, stakeholder management, and large-scale IT or banking transformation projects is highly desirable.