Head of Market Data Development and Engineering
Galaxy Digital Inc., successor to Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd., is a global digital-assets and AI/data-center infrastructure company.
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About Galaxy Digital Inc.
Galaxy operates across two businesses: Digital Assets and Data Centers. Its digital-assets platform provides institutional trading, lending, investment banking, asset management, staking, tokenization, custody, and related infrastructure; its data-center business develops AI and high-performance computing infrastructure.
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About the Role
You will lead market-data strategy, engineering, acquisition, governance, and optimization for digital and traditional assets. You will develop low-latency data platforms and APIs, manage developers and vendors, ensure data quality and compliance, optimize costs, and support trading, research, risk, and production systems.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience developing real-time market-data platforms at a trading firm, hedge fund, or financial institution
- Knowledge of market-data vendors, exchanges, and licensing models
- Understanding of trading workflows, asset classes, and real-time, reference, and historical data
- Experience with low-latency data systems, market-data feeds, APIs, and streaming technologies
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
Responsibilities
- Define and execute a unified market-data strategy across centralized crypto exchanges, decentralized venues, and traditional markets
- Design scalable, low-latency architecture for tick-level, order-book, and on-chain data
- Lead developers and contribute hands-on Java development
- Design and build a Java-based market-data API and manage the market-data messaging bus
- Build relationships with exchanges, data aggregators, and node providers
- Ensure normalized, high-quality datasets and oversee real-time data ingestion
- Establish monitoring and alerting for data integrity and completeness
- Manage the global market-data budget and identify cost-saving opportunities
- Partner with infrastructure teams on resilient, scalable data pipelines
- Ensure compliance with licensing, redistribution, entitlement, audit, and governance requirements
- Build and lead a development team and establish data-lifecycle best practices
- Use AI tools to improve productivity, decision-making, and output quality
Benefits
- Hybrid or flexible working arrangements
- Flexible paid time off
- 3% 401(k) company contribution
- Company-paid health and protective benefits for employees, partners, and dependents
- Paid parental leave
- Family-planning benefits for US employees
- Free daily snacks and weekly breakfasts and lunches
- Employee Resource Groups
- Free coaching and counseling sessions through Headspace