Integration Developer - Market Data connectivity - Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates ( Relocation friendly)

Project and role

Responsibilities

• Gather and document stakeholder requirements; propose connector designs aligned with bank guidelines and enterprise architecture.
• Build, test, and deploy Bloomberg B-PIPE and LSEG RTMDS connectors for streaming, snapshot, and reference data flows.
• Develop normalization, mapping, and enrichment logic for instruments, tickers, and curve inputs across vendor and internal sources.
• Implement failover, stale-tick and gap detection, recovery/replay, throttling, and conflation controls.
• Ensure entitlement-aware consumption complies with vendor licensing terms, including display, non-display, and redistribution restrictions.
• Profile performance, size capacity, and tune subscriptions to improve latency and throughput.
• Deliver monitoring, alerting, and dashboards; provide efficient L2/L3 production support.
• Follow the FAB IT Delivery Process, prepare interface specifications and support documentation, and maintain audit readiness.
• Work across internal teams and third-party vendors and respect timelines.

Required experience and skills

• At least seven years of hands-on capital-markets market-data integration development, including at least three years on real-time feeds.
• Strong Java and/or C++ and Python programming, with multithreaded and low-latency development experience.
• Experience building high-throughput, fault-tolerant data pipelines using MQ, Kafka, or equivalent technologies.
• Knowledge of FX, IRD, FI, and MM pricing inputs, curves, volatility surfaces, and reference data.
• Working knowledge of market-data licensing, entitlements, display/non-display use, and vendor contractual constraints.
• Familiarity with pricing and trading platforms and downstream STP flows into Murex and risk systems.
• Skills in SQL, Linux, shell scripting, Control-M, and monitoring or observability tools.
• Working knowledge of AWS/Azure, containers, CI/CD, APIs, messaging, and event streaming.
• English proficiency is specified as C2 proficient.

Preferred vendor connectivity

• Bloomberg B-PIPE connectivity using BLPAPI, subscription management, EMRS/DAPI entitlements, and service resilience is a plus.
• LSEG/Refinitiv RTMDS connectivity and knowledge of RFA, EMA/ETA, RSSL/RWF, and the OMM service and item model are a plus.