Who We Are:

Galaxy Digital Inc. (Nasdaq: GLXY) is a global leader in digital assets and data center infrastructure, growing the economy that runs on code. Galaxy delivers the onchain infrastructure that connects institutions to digital assets, including trading, advisory, asset management, staking, self-custody, and tokenization. Galaxy also develops and operates data center infrastructure to power AI and HPC workloads. Anchored by its Helios campus in Texas, Galaxy is building a multi-gigawatt pipeline of more than 5.7 GW of potential capacity, positioning it among the largest and fastest-growing data center developers in North America.

The Company is headquartered in New York City, with offices across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

Additional information about Galaxy's businesses and products is available on www.galaxy.com.

What We Value

We are a diverse team of free thinkers, and fast movers united to help investors and creators energize the global economy. We are looking for individuals who thrive in a culture of builders and overachievers and embrace high performance, transparent feedback, and a mission-first approach. Our culture shapes our way of working and gets us where we want to be.

Seek Excellence.
Be Selective To Be Effective.
Be Highly Aligned, Loosely Coupled.
Disagree Transparently.
Encourage Independent Decision-Making.
Build Dream Teams.

Who You Are

We are seeking an experienced Head of Market Data Development and Engineering to lead the development, delivery, acquisition, governance, and optimization of market data for both digital and traditional assets across the firm.

This role sits at the intersection of trading and technology ensuring high-quality, cost-effective, performant, and compliant data services that power trading, research, and risk systems.

You’ll work closely with trading teams, stakeholders, and external partners to deliver critical initiatives that drive our business forward. If you’re a natural problem-solver with a passion for hands-on technical development in a global, fast-paced environment, we want to hear from you.

What You’ll Do

Market Data Strategy & Architecture

Define and execute a unified market data strategy across centralized crypto exchanges (CEX), decentralized venues (DEX), and traditional markets
Design scalable, low-latency data architecture supporting tick-level, order book, and on-chain data
Evaluate build vs. buy decisions for internal data platforms vs. external providers

Development Manager and hands on Development

Lead a small team of developers and be hands on yourself in Java
Design and build a Java based Market Data API to front all data sources including custom feedhandlers, vendor platforms, Kdb+, and DataBricks
Manage the Market data messaging bus used by all internal applications in the firm

Crypto Market Data & Vendor Management

Build relationships with crypto exchanges (e.g., Binance, Coinbase, Deribit, OKX), data aggregators, and node providers
Assist our vendor management team with commercial negotiations, licensing, and exchange agreements across both crypto and traditional markets

Data Quality, Normalization & Coverage

Ensure high-quality, normalized datasets across fragmented crypto venues (symbol mapping, schema standardization, latency benchmarking)
Oversee ingestion of real-time order book data, trades, reference data, funding rates, and on-chain metrics
Establish monitoring and alerting frameworks for data integrity and completeness

Cost Management & Optimization

Manage and optimize the global market data budget across crypto and traditional vendors
Identify cost-saving opportunities through vendor consolidation, direct exchange connectivity, and internal data solutions
Implement usage tracking and chargeback models where appropriate

Infrastructure Partnership

Partner with infrastructure teams to build the pipes necessary to bring in market data
Support hybrid environments (on-prem + cloud) and ensure resilience, redundancy, and scalability
Enable data access for research, backtesting, and production trading systems