Database Engineer

Job Title : Database Engineer

Experience Level : Level 2 (intermediate) : 2-5 years

Location : Montreal (Day 1 onboarding onsite / in office presence 3x week)

The Internal Trade Activity and Reporting Applications (ITARA) department manages and develops databases and processes data across all divisions (ISG and MSWM) and business lines (FID, IED), including front office trading, reference, finance and risk data. The databases run on Sybase, DB2, KDb, Greenplum, Hadoop, and MongoDB technologies. ITARA owns several datamarts and business intelligence platforms (Business Objects, Qlikview and Tableau) to enable end user data analysis. Ownership includes database modeling, physical database design, SQL development, capacity planning, performance tuning, database maintenance and ETL pipelines.

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.

Major Role & Responsibilities :

• 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.

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