Arcesium - Senior Product Specialist/Product Lead

About the job: Company Overview: Arcesium is a global financial technology firm that solves complex data-driven challenges faced by some of the world's most sophisticated financial institutions. We constantly innovate our platform and capabilities to meet tomorrow's challenges, anticipate the risks our clients encounter, and design advanced solutions to help our clients achieve transformational business outcomes. Financial technology is a high-growth industry as change and innovation continue to disrupt the status-quo and prompt major transformation. Arcesium is at a particularly interesting time in our own growth as we look to leverage our successfully established market position and expand operations in pursuit of strategic new business opportunities. We value intellectual curiosity, proactive ownership, and collaboration with colleagues, and we empower you to meaningfully contribute from day one and accelerate your professional development. We're looking for a Senior Product Specialist / Product Lead to own Market Data & Vendor Integrations within the Opterra platform, and help shape the next-generation Market Data Connectivity system being built for configurability, data lineage, and transparency, with AI as a core part of the design. Key Responsibilities: - Own the roadmap for market-data and vendor integrations across providers like Bloomberg, LSEG/Reuters, and FactSet. - Shape the next-gen Market Data Connectivity system, driving configurability, lineage, and transparency, with AI at its core. - Define data mappings, transformation rules, validations, and integration requirements between vendor data and platform models. - Understand APIs, data flows, lineage, reconciliation, and downstream impact on platform workflows. - Translate business requirements into epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria alongside developers and architects. - Own backlog, prioritization, sprint planning, and delivery. - Drive UAT, data validation, and QA test-case definition, including resolving data discrepancies. - Act as domain SME for market and reference data, identifying edge cases and downstream impact. Key Requirements: - 2 + years of working experience integrating data from major vendors like Bloomberg, LSEG/Reuters, or FactSet. - Strong grasp of financial instruments, corporate actions, and structured products. - Solid understanding of Security Master, Reference Data, and Market Data. - Working knowledge of API's, data integration, lineage, and data quality. - Proven product ownership with Agile delivery including backlog management, user stories, UAT, QA. - Ability to combine domain expertise with hands-on execution. Arcesium's Personal Data Privacy Notice for Candidates is linked here. Recruiting Security: Emails from genuine Arcesium recruiters who are employees of the company will always come from the @arcesium.com domain. In some cases, you may also be contacted by independent search firms engaged to recruit on our behalf; emails from their employees should always come from their firm's applicable domain. We'll never ask for your banking information or any payment as part of the recruiting process.