Reference Data Lead – Security Master

Capco

Canada - Toronto · CAD 153,000-197,000 · 7+ years experience · Posted Sep 28, 2026

At a glance

Experience
7+ years experience
Location
Canada - Toronto
Salary
CAD 153,000-197,000 · Base salary

About the role

  • Own a critical data capability at the heart of trading, operations, compliance, and reporting.
  • Take ownership of the security master as the golden source of instrument data relied on across trading, operations, compliance, and reporting.
  • This is a senior role with broad visibility and influence across the firm, responsible for reference data quality, governance, and integrity across multiple asset classes.

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve the security master across equities, fixed income, derivatives, and funds, ensuring accurate and reliable instrument data across the firm.
  • Lead the sourcing, validation, reconciliation, and control of reference data from vendors including Bloomberg Data License, ICE, S&P, and LSEG.
  • Manage identifier cross-referencing across ISIN, CUSIP, SEDOL, FIGI, tickers, and issuer hierarchies, ensuring consistency across systems and downstream consumers.
  • Oversee corporate actions processing, data quality rules, governance standards, exception management, and the resolution of complex data issues.
  • Partner with technology and business teams on data models, EDM platforms, new instrument and market onboarding, regulatory requests, and the ongoing development of reference data capabilities.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in reference data or security master functions within capital markets, with a track record of owning complex data domains or critical data processes.
  • Strong knowledge of instrument terms, structures, identifiers, and reference data across multiple asset classes.
  • Hands-on experience with EDM platforms such as GoldenSource, Markit EDM, or Bloomberg Enterprise Data.
  • Strong understanding of corporate actions, data governance, data quality frameworks, controls, and exception management.
  • Strong SQL skills, combined with a detail-focused, controls-oriented approach and the ability to work effectively across technology and business teams.

Preferred qualifications

  • Exposure to regulatory reporting requirements such as MiFID II, CIRO, or EMIR.
  • Experience using Python to support data analysis, validation, reconciliation, or workflow efficiency.
  • Experience with data cataloguing, lineage, metadata management, or broader enterprise data governance tools.

Benefits

  • 100% company-paid health, life, and disability insurance effective from Day 1 of employment
  • Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with the option of receiving a matching employer contribution
  • Company-paid virtual health care and Employee & Family Assistance Program (EFAP) available to employees and their dependents/partners
  • Parental Leave Top-Up
  • New Parent Gift
  • Fitness reimbursement to support health and well-being

Skills

  • SQL
  • Bloomberg Data License
  • ICE
  • S&P
  • LSEG
  • ISIN
  • CUSIP
  • SEDOL
  • FIGI
  • GoldenSource
  • Markit EDM
  • Bloomberg Enterprise Data
Show all 15 skills
  • Python
  • MiFID II
  • CIRO

Capco

Reference Data Lead – Security Master

Apply now