Database Administrator

Financial Services company
Vienna, Austria
Roles:
Data
Must-have skills:
PythonSQL
Considering candidates from:
Austria
Work arrangement: Onsite
Industry: Financial Services
Language: English
Level: Middle or senior
Required experience: 2+ years
Relocation: Not paid
Visa support: Not provided
Size: 11 - 50 employees

Database Administrator

Financial Services company
Vienna, Austria
Our client is a technology-led hedge fund founded in 2015, passionate about collecting, cleaning, transforming, and storing data to feed trading strategies. Its data driven trading models utilize a variety of open-source technologies and multiple data sources, from vendor APIs to fleet of web crawlers running 24/7, to make trading decisions in the global markets. The firm manages assets on behalf of a diverse range of clients including pension plans, insurance companies, financial institutions, family offices, qualified individual investors, among others.
Description
Partnering with the operations team, you will develop solutions that enable the operations team to efficiently process various sources of trade data. This includes owning the ingestion (FIX drop/copy, SFTP, APIs), transforming it into actionable insights (VB.NET, Python), and storing it (MS SQL).

Tasks:
  • Design and implement stored procedures and views in MSSQL
  • Building data pipelines, standardizing, and cleansing data
  • Define and set best practice standards surrounding data
Must-have:
  • Proficiency in Relational database engineering is required; MSSQL is preferred
  • Strong general programming background with experience coding in Python
  •  Be able to succinctly present recommendations at an executive level
  • Strong analytic and strategic thinking skills
Nice-to-have:
  • Experience with Visual Basic .NET is a plus
  • Familiarity with the mechanics of securities markets and exchanges is a plus but not required
  • Bachelor’s in a technology-related field (e.g., Engineering, Computer Science, etc.) is required; a Master’s or Ph.D. degree would be ideal

Benefits and conditions:
  • Annual bonus
  • Health benefits
Interview process:
  1. Intro call with Toughbyte
  2. Coderbyte challenge (75 min)
  3. Call with the Hiring Manager (30 min - 1 hr) 
  4. Call with the Tech lead (30 min - 1 hr)
  5. Call with the Founder (30 min - 1 hr) 
  6. Technical Interview