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Form of workDatabase Specialist / Engineer – We are looking for a Database Specialist / Engineer who is looking for a new challenge in a highly challenging financial technology environment.
This team supports multiple equities, options and futures markets a part of a global engineering function. They spend significant time optimising data for increased data volumes while living and breathing reliability and automation.
You will have the following responsibilities:
- Develop and implement software applications to process and analyze real-time financial market data in a high-performance computing environment
- Maintain and optimize existing software applications, and recommend and implement improvements
- Processing, collecting and analyzing financial market data, including high frequency real-time pricing and reference data
- Monitor and improve the quality of analytical data generated from our clients applications
- Work with reference data teams to add or modify reference data sources
- Collaborate with existing Database engineering team members and work with them in upgrading PostgreSQL
- Automate/upgrade schema maintenance activity that is currently running on a schedule along with deployment of code.
We are looking for the following experience;
- 5+ years working on relational databases as either a DBA or Engineer capacity
- PostgreSQL exposure
- Linux or Unix Systems
- Experience in Python Scripting
- Scripting experience eg: SQL, Bash, PERL
- Strong knowledge of data structures and algorithms
- DESIRABLE: Experience with Hadoop and Snowflake
- DESIRABLE: Experience working within a global engineering team
If your experience matches the above criteria, please APPLY!
