
About the role
Overview
We are building a world-class data platform to support systematic trading across 10+ global exchanges. This role will lead the Data Engineering team responsible for ingesting, processing, storing, and serving all market, reference, and alternative data with low latency and high reliability.
Skills
Candidate requirements
These are the minimum requirements a candidate must meet to be considered for this role.
- 6+ years in Data Engineering, with at least 2+ years in a lead role.
- Prior experience in trading, HFT, systematic hedge fund, crypto exchange, or similar.

Market Data Team Lead
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Last updated 2025-12-12T06:09:18.452Z
Overview
We are building a world-class data platform to support systematic trading across 10+ global exchanges. This role will lead the Data Engineering team responsible for ingesting, processing, storing, and serving all market, reference, and alternative data with low latency and high reliability.
Salary
Competitive Salary
Location
London, United Kingdom
OnsiteDepartment
Data
Level
Senior
Skills
Overview
We are building a world-class data platform to support systematic trading across 10+ global exchanges. This role will lead the Data Engineering team responsible for ingesting, processing, storing, and serving all market, reference, and alternative data with low latency and high reliability.
Skills
Candidate requirements
These are the minimum requirements a candidate must meet to be considered for this role.
- 6+ years in Data Engineering, with at least 2+ years in a lead role.
- Prior experience in trading, HFT, systematic hedge fund, crypto exchange, or similar.
About BHFT
BHFT is a proprietary algorithmic trading firm. Our team manages the full trading cycle, from software development to creating and coding strategies and algorithms. Our trading operations cover key exchanges. The firm trades across a broad range of asset classes, including equities, equity derivatives, options, commodity futures, rates futures, etc. We employ a diverse and growing array of algorithmic trading strategies, utilizing both High-Frequency Trading (HFT) and Medium-Frequency Trading (MFT) approaches. Looking ahead, we are expanding into new markets and products. As a dynamic company, we continuously experiment with new markets, tools, and technologies.
We’ve got a team of 200+ professionals, with a strong emphasis on technology—70% are technical specialists in development, infrastructure, testing, and analytics spheres. The remaining part of the team supports our business operations, such as Risks, Compliance, Legal, Operations and more. Our employees are located all around the world, from the United States to Hong Kong. Although we maintain office spaces, we currently operate as a 100% remote organization. At BHFT, clarity and transparency are at the core of our culture: we value open communication, ensuring that our processes are straightforward.
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