Database Engineer
Job Description
Job Description:
The Datamarts Analytics team is looking for talented data engineers to join our global team of highly technical individuals who manage many databases that include Big Data volumes. We deliver multiple projects for multiple business areas in parallel. The business owners and subject matter experts are globally distributed, making strong communication skills important to the position. The candidate will be expected to work closely with our IT partners in analyzing and delivering on business requirements. Development will utilize an agile methodology, which is based on scrum (time boxing, daily scrum meetings, retrospectives, etc), and XP (continuous integration, refactoring, unit testing etc.) best practices. Candidates must therefore be able to work collaboratively, demonstrate good ownership and be able to work well in teams. Work will include designing, enhancing and developing applications across different database environments.
The job will involve considering all aspects of the project life cycle and includes proof-of-concept evaluations, coding, designing, testing, implementing, deploying, and continued support of project releases as well as on-call Level 3 support. Collaboration with the firm’s engineering teams is expected.
• Database Infrastructure Engineering for stability, scalability and capacity planning.
• Application DBA functions: plan & execute database schema changes, bottleneck analysis, outage prevention/resolution, server/database performance improvements, database maintenance, database recovery, etc.
• Database development (stored procedures, ETL, tools) and queries/stored procedures review and optimization.
• Enforce database security, standards & guidelines.
• 3-5 years of experience with relational databases – especially with DB2 Linux or Sybase
• Scripting on linux platforms in languages such as Perl/Python and Unix / K-Shell
• Strong knowledge base of relational database performance and tuning such as: proper use of indices, database statistics/reorgs, de-normalization concepts, memory management, database configurations, etc.
• Create high quality and optimized stored procedures and queries
• Knowledge of other databases like Greenplum is a big plus
• Familiarity with Datalakes
• Finance domain background is a plus.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools
• Graduate degree in Computer Science, Information System or equivalent field
• Integrity & ownership, good team player
• Ability to work under time and resource dependencies and constraints,
• Ability to find simple and effective solutions,
• High degree of motivation to expand technical and business knowledge.