Lead Market Data Developer - Commodities

Lead Market Data Developer Contract | £1,000-£1,200 per day | Outside IR35 London - 3 days per week onsite World-Leading Commodities Firm A world-leading commodities trading firm is seeking a Lead Market Data Developer to head up its market data development function. This is a high-impact role focused on building and enhancing a mission-critical Data Management System (DMS) that underpins market data reliability for a major global oil trading division. You will lead a team of market data developers, own full lifecycle delivery of market data solutions, and act as the subject matter expert for curve development across the commodities oil business. This is a strategic contract position reporting directly to the Head of Market Data. Key Responsibilities • Lead and mentor a team of market data developers, driving a collaborative and high-performance culture. • Act as the SME for market data initiatives, particularly around commodity oil curve development. • Manage and align stakeholders on project goals, timelines, and outcomes. • Own end-to-end project delivery: requirements, design, development, and service deployment. • Build and enhance data parsers, ETL pipelines, and distribution tooling under a standardised data model. • Create, maintain, and remark complex commodity curves supporting trading, pricing, and risk. • Collaborate with vendors and internal technology teams to ensure seamless feed integration. • Provide second-line support for daily parsing, calculations, and curve-driven market data processes. • Partner with exchanges, PRAs, and external market data providers to ensure accurate and timely delivery. Skills & Experience • Strong experience onboarding, processing, and distributing market data from multiple sources (API, file, scraping). • Proven track record building market data or data management system components. • Deep understanding of ETL/ELT workflows, data warehousing, and handling EOD/tick data. • Strong engineering discipline-clean, testable, standardised code. • Good knowledge of schema design and modern deployment/automation practices. • Familiarity with Zema, Docker, and containerised environments is advantageous. • Experience within commodities or financial-services trading technology teams is highly desirable. Contract Details • £1,000 - £1,200 per day • Outside IR35 • 3 days per week in London office • Long-term engagement potential with a world-leading trading organisation