Technical Solutions Lead – External Data & Analytics Catalog

CME Group:

As the world’s leading derivatives marketplace, CME Group enables clients to trade futures, options, cash, and OTC markets. The Data Services business licenses and distributes real-time and historical market data to global financial institutions, trading firms, data vendors, and retail customers.

The Role:

We are seeking a hands-on technical product owner for CME Group’s Data and Analytics Catalog, a strategic platform designed to expedite user onboarding across Real-Time, Historical, and Delayed market data and analytics. In this high-impact individual contributor role, you will bridge the gap between our external catalog, user data licensing, and technical connectivity. Own and advocate a clear vision of the North Star technical outcome you are driving towards. 

You will drive the scope, prioritization, and delivery of the catalog’s roadmap. As the hands-on technical lead driving execution, you will collaborate closely with customers, product, engineering, sales, vendors, and internal stakeholders to build features that streamline data delivery. Key responsibilities include translating direct client feedback into refined technical requirements, resolving complex integration hurdles, and managing vendor relationships to ensure our data ecosystem is secure, robust, and seamlessly accessible for our global clients. 

Key Responsibilities

Your focus will be driving an improved time to market for our customers through building an improved data discovery experience, streamlined purchasing & onboarding workflows, and refined developer experience. This role provides an impactful opportunity to grow CME Group’s Data Services revenue targeting self-service workflows for institutional and retail customers. 

• Product Strategy: Define and execute the 0-12 month roadmap for market data distribution platforms, focusing on consumer onboarding, marketplace enhancements, cloud-hosted data delivery, and telemetry tracking. See through product delivery from ideation to demos, performance KPIs, and operational metrics.
• Marketplace Management: Direct day-to-day performance and roadmap execution for the external CME Group data marketplace, ensuring operational SLAs, integration quality, and feature alignment. Write product requirements and stories for engineering teams.
• Metadata Catalog Strategy: Build and maintain an internal metadata catalog and schema registries to serve as the unified engine powering product discovery and interoperability across both vendor-managed and CME-native marketplaces.
• Developer / User Experience: Deliver a strong front-end onboarding experience while leading engineering teams and vendors to define API specifications, data payload formats, and distribution protocols. Engage customers to capture feedback for product development and extract insights from telemetry data to identify areas for feature improvement and validation.
• Monetization: Collaborate with Licensing and Sales to structure data access models, distribution pricing, and vendor licensing workflows across real-time, delayed, and historical data feeds to increase Data Services revenue. Ensure this works seamlessly with billing systems.

Qualifications

Required:

• Data obsessed: Able to identify and solve for complex user problems 
• Expertise with database schemas, metadata/catalog frameworks, data product schemas, APIs, CI/CD pipelines, and schema design
• Track record managing complex technical dependencies with external platform vendors and cross-functional engineering teams.
• Attention to detail and analytical skills. You should excel at working with data, know the ins-and-outs of your product, be able to pull metrics using SQL, and effectively distill insights from them. 
• Strong communication skills. You should be able to explain complex technical details in a simple way. Can effectively work across multiple teams while effectively managing internal and external stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, Economics, or related fields and 5+ years of experience in product management or related experience with digital marketplaces, SaaS, data engineering, or enterprise products data pipelines, data governance

Preferred:

• Cloud experience: Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery, GCS, Apigee), AWS, Azure, Snowflake, Databricks
• Languages: SQL and Python
• Technologies: APIs, data warehouses, OLTP
• Working knowledge of Agile, Lean or similar software development methodologies

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CME Group is committed to offering a competitive total rewards package for our employees that recognizes their contributions to the business and reflects our long-term investment in their future. The pay range for this role is $138,300-$230,500. Actual salary offered will be dependent on a wide array of factors including but not limited to: relevant experience, skills, education and comparison to internal employees (where relevant). Our compensation program also includes an annual target bonus opportunity for all employees, as well as the opportunity to become an owner in the company through our broad-based equity program. Through our benefits program, we strive to offer flexibility, value and choice. From comprehensive health coverage, to a retirement package that includes both a 401(k) and an active pension plan, to highly competitive education reimbursement provisions, paid time off and a mental health benefit, CME Group offers a holistic benefits package for our team and their dependents.

CME Group: Where Futures are Made

CME Group is the world’s leading derivatives marketplace. But who we are goes deeper than that. Here, you can impact markets worldwide. Transform industries. And build a career by shaping tomorrow. We invest in your success and you own it – all while working alongside a team of leading experts who inspire you in ways big and small. Problem solvers, difference makers, trailblazers. Those are our people. And we’re looking for more.

At CME Group, we embrace our employees' unique experiences and skills to ensure that everyone’s perspectives are acknowledged and valued. As an equal-opportunity employer, we consider all potential employees without regard to any protected characteristic.

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