Senior Market Data Specialist (f/m/d)

Location: Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Company

hirify.global Group’s Group Data function supports enterprise data strategy, market data sourcing, data governance, and the group-wide data mesh.

What you will do

• Drive global sourcing initiatives for real-time, delayed, historical, reference, index, ratings, alternative, and derived market data.
• Own licensing for display, non-display, redistribution, derived data, index, benchmark, enterprise, application, and AI/model-related usage.
• Manage strategic relationships with exchanges, vendors, index providers, rating agencies, brokers, platforms, and other suppliers.
• Lead vendor negotiations, renewals, commercial reviews, contract optimisation, audits, remediation, and dispute resolution.
• Establish licensing and usage controls across entities, locations, systems, and business lines, ensuring alignment with contracts, exchange policies, audits, regulations, and internal governance.
• Provide commercial oversight of market data spend and direction to market data administration, inventory, entitlement, reporting, and data-consuming teams.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of market data management experience within a bank, asset manager, hedge fund, trading firm, exchange, data vendor, or financial services institution.
• Strong understanding of market data licensing, vendor contracts, exchange policies, commercial models, consumption types, and legal and contractual components including licensing rights, audit provisions, liability, redistribution rights, and termination provisions.
• Strong commercial aptitude in cost management, risk reduction, contractual outcomes, and vendor governance, combined with relationship management skills across business, technology, finance, compliance, procurement, and external vendors.
• Experience working across multiple business lines, legal entities, and jurisdictions, with effective collaboration across organisational boundaries and a service-oriented mindset.
• Good understanding of market data governance, controls, usage monitoring, entitlement management, inventory management, and reporting.
• Ability to communicate complex licensing, legal, commercial, technical, and operational issues to senior management in a clear and concise way.
• Excellent organisational, problem-solving, adaptability, and attention-to-detail skills, with the ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Strong team-player and stakeholder-management skills.

Nice to have

• Financial market data licensing certification, such as FISD Data Licensing Specialist, Financial Information Associate, or equivalent.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within Group Data and contribute directly to the enterprise data strategy with the Group’s Chief Data Officer and Head of Market Data Management.
• Collaborate with procurement, compliance, finance, technology, and business stakeholders across hirify.global Group’s eight business units.
• Support data governance and access to high-quality data for decision-making, AI, automation, and commercialisation.