Team Leader - Corporate Bonds Data in London

Location: London

Business Area: Data

Bloomberg runs on data. Our products are fueled by powerful information. We combine data and context to paint the whole picture for our clients, around the clock – from around the world. In Data, we are responsible for delivering this data, news and analytics through innovative technology - quickly and accurately. We apply problem-solving skills to identify innovative workflow efficiencies, and we implement technology solutions to enhance our systems, products and processes.

The Team: Our Bloomberg New Issues Credit team is responsible for the timely and accurate publication of new bonds being brought to market. Responsibilities also include developing automated pipelines for ingestion and publication of new issue data, enhancing our primary markets dataset, and finding opportunities to expand our data product offering through client engagement. Our New Issues team works closely with internal consumers of our data including the News, Evaluated Pricing, and Index teams. We also heavily collaborate with our counterparts in Product, Sales & Engineering.

What’s the Role? We’re looking for a strong motivated people leader to manage the Credit Bonds Data team in EMEA. In this role, you’ll be leading a team of data modelling professionals and data engineers who are responsible for the acquisition and publication of data driving many critical products and services across the terminal. You’ll coach and mentor team members, helping drive automation strategies to deliver faster, more accurate data and contribute to the broader product strategy around credit and primary markets. You’ll also provide hands‑on guidance, lead technical discussions, and give direction and feedback to ICs in the team aligning to industry best practices and governance to ensure a future‑proof data model.

We’ll Trust You To:

• Lead and develop a high-performing team of data professionals, setting clear goals and fostering a culture of feedback, growth, and accountability.
• Apply cutting edge technologies including LLMs and Agentic AI to deliver higher quality, faster data whilst reducing the dependency on manual processes, helping to deliver cost and efficiency savings.
• Translate product and business requirements into a coherent data vision that allows us to expand the breadth of coverage, supporting evolving client needs and incorporating best practices of data management.
• Partner with data modelling teams to leverage corporate bond taxonomies, controlled vocabularies, and ontologies to improve the interoperability of our metadata models.
• Communicate progress, priorities, and technical concepts clearly across both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and SMEs and influence decision makers across the firm to align to shared data standards that improve the consistency of our data and client outcomes.

You’ll Need to Have:

• Demonstrated leadership capability, with 3+ years of experience managing people or leading large-scale regional projects.
• Bachelor's degree, preferably in STEM, Economics, a quantitative social science, or related business field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience in data management related role such as data quality, data modeling and/or data engineering, working with large datasets to quantify trends impacting the industry.
• Experience with data analysis using tools such as Python, SQL, and/or Tableau / QSEN.
• Excellent communication skills, allowing you to clearly communicate business needs and to advocate on behalf of your team as well as communicate business and operational strategy to your team.
• Deep understanding of fixed income credit, particularly focused around corporate bonds.
• Ability to spot market trends and act on them to enhance depth and breadth of coverage.
• Ability to demonstrate qualitative and quantitative evidence to drive commercial decisions, and use statistics and data visualization skills to report on results of ongoing operations and projects, as required.
• Strategic vision to align team goals around providing outstanding service to the business and other internal/external clients, and the ability to implement a business and people strategy which delivers on that vision.
• Proven ability to establish strong credibility and build influential relationships with multiple internal and external partners.

We’d Love to See:

• Demonstrated experience in fixed income or financial datasets (especially within credit markets).
• Prior experience building scalable automation pipelines for data validation and model maintenance.
• Knowledge of Bloomberg data products and enterprise offerings.

If indicated, please note that years of experience are a guide; we will consider applications from all candidates who can demonstrate the skills necessary for the role.

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