Index Platform Manager - Index Data Expert

Leads across the organization Platform Management ideas and activities.

Participates in or leads the analytical, experimental, investigative, and testing efforts in support of new platform development engineering.

Coordinates new platform development, including research and design.

Works closely with internal customer base to identify key needs and appropriate platform solutions.
Acts as a funnel for platform development ideas and knows how to influence key people in order to realize commercial opportunities.

Nasdaq Index’s Platform is a multi-vendor, multi-asset-class calculation, dissemination, and data access point for vendor and derived data, and calculation algorithms that drive Index research, construction, and management decisions of Nasdaq’s global index business. 

The Index Platform Management Team is responsible for researching, making recommendations and implementing standards for how and which data and methodologies are used by Nasdaq’s Indexes, and to promote standardization across the Index Platform.

Members of the Index Platform Management Team are industry leaders with a deep understanding of Index construction and methodologies and of global capital markets, including equity and derivative trading data, corporate actions, and company financial statements.  Team members collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders including platform users, technology, and governance.

The Role:

The Index Data House Views role will be responsible for researching and creating and maintaining rules for transforming data to be production ready for use in the construction of Nasdaq Indexes.  The success candidate will need extensive knowledge of data, the sources of data and data vendors used in equity index production.

Responsibilities:

• Champion and provide thought leadership on initiatives that advance the Index Platform’s capabilities in the areas of Data Management and Data Methodology, and be able to make choices that will represent firmwide policy and defend those choices when asked by internal and external clients.
• Develop fact-based rules, policies, and procedures for data that produce high-quality and differentiated Indexes.  These rules include the logic and process for determining the data point that represents Nasdaq’s single source of truth for a given data field as a given point in time; how multiple data points aggregate to a single useable and defendable data building block; and the guidelines for QA to ensure accuracy of such data points and building block.
• Deep understanding of how index providers and asset managers adjudicate among multiple data vendors and market conventions when defining a single source of truth
• Deep understanding and expertise of the methodologies, and the strengths and weaknesses of data vendors such as Bloomberg, FactSet, and Morningstar
• Working with Technology, Governance, and Index Management to develop and maintain Platform policies and procedures and business requirements for data handling, QA and auditing.
• Have a client-focused approach that takes into consideration real-world trading implications of index data policies and index data imputations and adjustments
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert for Data methodologies and policies to internal teams, including Research and Development, Benchmark Administration, and Client Service
• Maintain awareness of index trends and industry standards and the data drivers of new products launched in the market

• Bachelor’s Degree and 10+ years relevant experience
• Index industry experience, either with an index provider, an index data aggregator, or a portfolio manager of index based products, with strong knowledge of Factor, Thematic, and ESG indexes, and systematic strategies, and the data that required for such strategies.
• Prior membership on a Policy or Benchmark Administration Committee (or equivalent), is preferred
• Ability to conduct independent research, execute quantitative and qualitative analyses, and present findings in a business-friendly way

• Experience working within an Agile project environment supporting time-sensitive initiatives such as industry-driven business changes that have set target dates, and strategic changes that are established as part of the business planning cycle

Come as You Are

Nasdaq is an equal opportunity employer. We positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of age, color, disability, national origin, ancestry, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status