Senior Developer, Data Feeds – Information Technology recruitment

Position Title: Senior Developer, Data Feeds - Information Technology

Working Location: US - New York, NY

Employment Status: Full-Time Regular

Required Experience: 5 years

Required Education: Bachelors Degree

Travel Required: 0

Job ID: 1750

Position Description:
Fitch Ratings is a global rating agency committed to providing value beyond the rating through independent and prospective credit opinions, research and data. Offering a world of knowledge and experience behind every opinion, we transform information to deliver meaning and utility to investors, issuers and other market participants. Fitch Ratings' global expertise draws on local market knowledge and spans across the fixed-income universe. The additional context, perspective and insights we provide help investors make important credit judgments with confidence.

Dual-headquartered in New York and London, Fitch Ratings has 51 offices worldwide. Fitch Ratings is part of the Fitch Group, a majority-owned subsidiary of Fimalac, S.A. headquartered in Paris, France.

Fitch complies with federal, state, and local laws governing employment, and provides equal opportunity to all applicants and employees. All applications will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, and other status protected by applicable laws.

Position Requirements:
Participate in the development, maintenance, and support of Fitch's subscription data feed applications. Complete design, development, and testing tasks for existing and new data feed functionality. Work closely with business front-line technical support teams to troubleshoot correct data and application issues. Development work takes place on an Oracle / OBIEE enterprise platform. Work with a variety of technologies, including Oracle, OBIEE, PL/SQL, and Java.

Responsibilities:
• Design, develop maintain data feed applications
• Provide advanced data analysis of complex, multi-process, distribution systems
• Provide technical support and advanced troubleshooting of data quality delivery problems, including off-hours application support
• Work closely on an ongoing basis with both IT (DBA, QA, System Administration) and non-IT (Client Support, Product Development) teams
• Work on cross-functional agile project teams reporting to a Project Leader

Requirements:
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, MIS, or related
• 5+ years of experience in enterprise data management (as a database administrator) or data analyst) in an Oracle Enterprise environment, including Oracle Data Warehouse experience
• 2+ years of hands-on development experience with Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition (OBIEE)
• Experience with external data delivery systems
• Experience with large volumes of complex financial data
• Deep understanding of SQL and relational databases, experience writing queries, debugging stored procedures, and debugging code
• Team player, good interpersonal skills
• Proven initiative; self-starter
• Excellent communication skills; verbal and written

Additional skills a plus:
• Java programming experience (MVC frameworks, especially JSF or Spring, preferred)
• Linux or Unix shell scripting experience
• Banking or Financial Services experience