Database Engineer Consultant

Company Description

Options Group is a leading global executive search and strategic consulting firm specializing in financial services including capital markets, global markets, alternative investments, hedge funds, and private banking/wealth management.

For more than 25 years, our clients and candidates have come to know that Options Group always exceeds expectations. Our innovative approach to facilitating limitless search possibilities for our clients and candidates around the world has been recognized as the industry standard. Through our global footprint (15 offices spread across 4 continents), Options Group has the resources, analytics and experience to drive the acquisition of top tier talent for firms of any size. Options Group is on the forefront, pioneering a new generation of human talent management solutions, where research meets recruiting for optimal strategic results. OG is hands-on in providing a superior range of innovative options for financial services & tech clients and candidates.

Job Description

Job Function Summary

Millennium currently deploys a combination of vendor products and internally developed systems. Millennium is building a regulatory platform to help fulfill various regulatory mandates, one inflight project being MiFID II out of Europe. We are looking to hire a Database Consultant to join the Corporate Systems development team in New York to work on the implementation of our MiFID II platform.

Principal Responsibilities

· Gather and process raw data at scale (including writing scripts, calling APIs, write SQL queries, etc.).

· Build solutions to process unstructured data into a form suitable for analysis and ingest into the big data platform, firm and vendor systems.

· Support business decisions with ad hoc analysis as needed.

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Qualifications

· 5+ years of Relational Database development experience with strong knowledge writing complexSQL and Stored Procedures

· Shell Scripting (ksh or bsh)

· Perl programming (pattern matching, database access)

· Experience modeling data in both normalized for transaction processing and denormalized for reporting

· ETL, custom or commercial tools like NiFi or Informatica

· Development experience in a unix/linux environment

· Highly analytical with good problem solving skills and creativity; able to work independently in a fast-paced environment

· Positive individual with strong communication skills; able to interface well with users and other development teams

· Self-driven individual with an ability to work under pressure

Skills Desired

· Experience with Compliance or related applications helpful

· Broad understanding of financial services instruments helpful

Qualifications

More full-stack (C#, .NET etc…) individuals. Someone that can do app/dev work but has strong SQL skills and can do the database work needed for this role. That type of person would have a longer potential trajectory here as opposed to a straight database consultant.

Additional Information

Interested candidates please contact

Abhishek Agarwal

aagarwal(at)optionsgroup.com