Sunday, June 01, 2008

Sr. Database Architect/Systems Developer in New York, NY

Sunday, June 01, 2008
ETF Database schema design normalization and Systems Developer.

. Knowledge of ETFs, benchmarks, equities, corporate actions, tick capture, asset class categorization, cusips, dividends, and other trading related knowledge.

. Data Capture and analysis - from Bloomberg or DS or other source.

- Rating Service - all data points for structural integrity and
investment metrics.
- Categorization of ETFs and underlying benchmarks.
- Monthly update of all ratings data to update db.
- Monitor daily replication.

. Database Design - design tables and write all stored procedures for use with new schema.
- Design overnight replication procedures.
- Create tools and monitor code and directory structure for
seamless transition from dev, to staging to production.

. Documentation of all data. Uses Source Safe for code veracity.

. Testing, Maintenance, Optimization and rewriting code for redundancy and efficiency of all stored procedures.

. Quality Assurance - bug testing, automated email notification.
- Making sure all automated scripts send messages as to success
or failure.

. ETF Finder - Research on other platforms, design of new system.

. Design new db schema and implement.
- Build Visio diagrams.
- Build templates for use in loading data into fact sheets, etc.

. New Tools for automating data capture.

. Excel Templates for calculation of intermediary data before loading into db.

. User friendly tools for website incl.

20 - 50 % yearly Bonus

Experience: Bachelor's degree and extensive related financial/technical experience.

3-5 years experience with stored procedure programming, data modeling, replication, performance monitoring, optimization and database administration

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Ability to collaborate effectively in a fast-paced team environment.

Languages: SQL Server, .NET, Perl, VB/VBA, SQL, C/C++/C#, Java, HTML, XML

Technologies: multithreading, sockets, MS Office automation

Other Software: Bloomberg API, Thompson Datastream

Database Skills: Schema design, SQL Server SP, replication, backup, and mgmt.

Certfications: Series 7 a plus


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