Technical Lead, MFT MDE Analytics Engineering

Technical Lead, MFT MDE Analytics Engineering The SPEED Market Data team seeks a hands-on Technical Lead who will own and drive a critical workstream focused on architecting, implementing,   monitoring , and supporting low-latency C++ systems that are robust, resilient,   accurate , stable, and blindingly fast. By leading the design and evolution of this high-performance infrastructure, you will help position MLP as a leader in quantitative trading. You will shape the future of this industry while working alongside other exceptional engineers and strategists to solve some of the most significant engineering problems in the world.   We are looking for a strong technical leader with financial   markets   technology experience and real-time market data   expertise   to design, build, and support our global real-time (both low-latency and non-latency-sensitive) market data platform.   This role emphasizes technical leadership, architectural ownership, and cross-team coordination rather than people management.   The successful candidate will be comfortable owning a workstream end-to-end—covering design, implementation, monitoring, support, and stakeholder management—while ensuring stability of the existing environment and driving platform improvements.

Act as the technical owner for a major market data workstream, setting technical direction, defining architecture, and driving execution across the full lifecycle.    Collaborate with hardware and software teams across divisions to design and build real-time market data processing and distribution systems.    Lead and drive new technical initiatives for the team, including evaluating technologies, defining standards, and   establishing   best practices.    Design and develop systems, interfaces, and tools for historical market data and trading simulations that increase research productivity.    Architect and implement components of   an   enterprise market data platform , including co mponents for   c aching,   a ggregation,   conflation   and   value-added   data enrichment .    Optimize platform performance using network and systems programming, and advanced low-latency techniques (CPU, NIC, kernel, and application-level tuning).    Lead the design and maintenance of automated test and benchmark frameworks, and tools for risk management, performance tracking, and system validation.    Provide technical leadership for the support and operation of both enterprise real-time market data environments, including coordinating internal, vendor, and exchange-driven changes.    Design and engineer components to automate support and management of the market data platform, including monitoring, real-time and historical metrics collection/visualization, and self-service administrative/user tools.    Serve as a primary technical liaison for users of the market data environment (Portfolio Managers, trading desks, and core technology teams), translating requirements into robust technical solutions.    Lead the enhancement of processes and workflows for   operating   the market data platform (release/deployment, incident management and remediation, exchange notification handling,   defining   and enforcing SLAs).    Mentor and influence other engineers through code reviews, design reviews, and hands-on guidance, fostering a culture of technical excellence and accountability.     Qualifications / Skills Required   Degree in Computer Science or a related field with a strong background in data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented programming in   modern   C++.    Deep understanding of Linux system internals and networking, especially in low-latency and high-throughput environments.    Strong knowledge of CPU architecture and the ability to   leverage   CPU capabilities for performance optimization.    Demonstrated experience acting as a technical lead or senior engineer owning