Description:

TEDRA (Trade Enrichment Data Reporting & Allocations) is part of the Institutional Securities Technology (IST) Division. It is responsible for maintaining, distributing, and reporting on trading, revenue, risk, and reference data (client, product, and pricing). As the authoritative source of key data sets, we are at the forefront of database technology and are heavily involved in data engineering, data science, data visualization, and machine learning efforts across the Firm. Within TEDRA, the Internal Trade and Reporting Applications (ITARA) Practice Area is responsible for systems and infrastructure that supports trade data extraction/enrichment, Data-Mart creation, report generation and distribution, high performance business intelligence platforms for internal clients.

The ITARA Reference Data Development Team is tasked with database engineering projects and other strategic RDBMS product evaluations. The team is looking for talented data engineers to contribute on the development of its core infrastructure components on Sybase and DB2 database plants (several hundred databases).The successful candidate must be passionate about data, have a strong interest and experience in RDBMS technologies, including enterprise-scale, real time, highly accessed transactional databases and replication systems. This position offers an opportunity to participate in lively discussion on technical and business issues, meaning that strong communication skills and willingness to express their own views as well as listen to others is vital.

The tasks will include performance optimization, testing, database engineering, platform migration, version upgrades, development and distribution on cloud platforms. The person joining the team must be able to operate in a fast-paced Agile environment where time to market is a key requirement without compromising on the quality and resiliency of the application.

Required skills

1. Knowledge (intermediate level) of development and performance optimization on major RDBMS technologies

2. Scripting knowledge (python, Perl)

3. Basic knowledge of unix/linux operating systems

4. Excellent communication skills.

Desired skills

1. Data modeling concepts.

2. Version control, preferably with GIT.

3. Knowledge of ETL products such as Informatica.

4. Replication

5. Agile practices

6. Experience working in geographically dispersed teams.

7. Other personal skills: Integrity & ownership, good team player, high degree of motivation to expand technical and business knowledge.