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ETF Pricing Specialist

A data-focused role maintaining the ETF pricing inputs that feed a market maker's trading. It sits between the trading desks and the developers who build the pricing platform, as part of the firm's expansion in cash equities and ETFs.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Validate daily ETF creation baskets (PCFs) and flag breaks before they reach pricing
Handle corporate-action edge cases that distort ETF basket composition
Build checks and automation that catch bad or missing ETF data earlier
Clean and align ETF holdings data feeding the pricing pipeline across new markets

What they ask for

Required

ETF mechanics and datasets
Data processing and validation
Attention to detail
Clear communication
Cross-team collaboration

Preferred

Python or a similar language
Handling PCF files
Corporate action data

Education: No degree level stated.
Experience: 2+ years working with ETF and related financial datasets
Languages and tools: Python
Markets: equities

How to prepare

Learn how ETF creation and redemption baskets work and what a PCF contains
Practise cleaning messy holdings data in Python and writing validation checks
Study how corporate actions (splits, dividends, index changes) alter a basket
Build a small pipeline that reconciles an ETF's basket value against its price

What to study

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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Optiver and doesn’t handle applications.