Wells Fargo Lead Market Data Engineer Vice President 

United Kingdom, England, City of London 

144203573

About this role:

In this role, you will:​

• Provide operational support, troubleshooting, and issue resolution for market data platforms, including: (LSEG TREP) – Wells Fargo’s core market data distribution platform, Bloomberg – Supporting Bloomberg infrastructure, desktop applications, and data feeds, and ACTIV Financial – OptionsIT – Supporting ACTIV Financial’ s real-time data services.
• Monitor and optimise market data infrastructure to ensure low-latency, high-availability performance.
• Partner with business stakeholders, trading desks, and vendor support teams to resolve data and connectivity issues.
• Execute market data infrastructure upgrades, patches, and migrations outside US business hours.
• Implement and manage failover testing, hardware/software refreshes, and configuration changes.
• Work closely with global engineering teams on TREP architecture improvements and cloud migration initiatives.
• Perform scheduled BCP/DR tests, ensuring system reliability and compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Support failover events and contingency planning for market data platform resiliency.
• Automation & Performance Optimisation
• Develop scripts and tools using Python, Bash, or Ansible to automate deployments, monitoring, and failover processes.
• Provide incident management and escalation for US business units.
• Ensure follow-the-sun support by working closely with US-based teams to handoff and resolve ongoing issues.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation on system configurations, troubleshooting guides, and best practices.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience in Technology Infrastructure Engineering and Solutions, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• Experience in market data infrastructure, engineering, or support within a financial institution.
• Strong expertise in LSEG TREP (Refinitiv RMDS, MDDP) – installation, administration, and tuning.
• Experience with Bloomberg (server, desktop, data feeds) and ACTIV Financial (OptionsIT) platforms.
• Familiarity with market data entitlements, permissioning, and feed distribution.
• Technical & Infrastructure Expertise
• Linux/Unix Administration (Red Hat preferred) – experience managing market data servers.
• Networking knowledge – multicast, TCP/IP, firewalls, and network troubleshooting.
• Scripting & Automation – hands-on experience with Python, Bash, Ansible, or similar tools.
• Experience with infrastructure upgrades, software deployments, and configuration changes.
• BCP/Disaster Recovery & Risk Management
• Experience participating in failover events, BCP drills, and disaster recovery planning.
• Strong understanding of risk management principles in a financial services environment.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with Cloud Market Data Solutions (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Knowledge of middleware technologies for market data processing.
• Familiarity with DevOps principles and CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure automation.

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.