Senior Database Developer/Architect recruitment

The firm fosters an informal and collegial culture and rewards both achievement and commitment.

Responsibilities:

• Build scalable database management systems.  Understand, acquire and update financial economic data, quality assurance checks, and metadata.

• 24 hour production support.

• Meeting the requests of a research team in a timely manner and assisting in requirement formulation.

• Basic analysis and procedural research under guidance.

• Documentation of all processes.

• Utilize best-practices of in-house system analysis, design, and programming standards.

• Status reporting to business stakeholders and senior management.

Requirements:

Rotella Capital Management Inc is looking for self-directed and motivated people who are driven to provide quality IT systems that meet business needs in a reliable and efficient manner.

A candidate who will succeed in this role must be able to operate with minimal initial requirements, structure, and guidance. 

Expectations of this role include the ability to demonstrate clear and concise verbal and written communication in the form of discussion participation, email, and written documentation.   Communication skills are crucial to working with a variety of business roles to plan, schedule, organize, and coordinate development efforts.

Required technical skills and experience include:

• Strong database modeling and development skills - at least 5 years of experience

• Designing and developing backend software for capture, storage and retrieval of large amounts of market data

• Modeling financial data (futures, FX, equities, options) with emphasis on equities

• Performance tuning

• Database Management: file size/growth; backup/restore: security

Required competencies include:

• Knowledge of financial data with an emphasis on equities

• Strong communication skills and abilities

• Problem solving skills

• Knowledge of SQL Server 

Bonus skills include:

• Familiarity with 3rd party data vendors (Bloomberg, Reuters, Activ, etc...)

• SSIS development

• Experience with column-oriented databases and NoSQL systems

• Application programming

• Knowledge of software development best-practices and standards

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