Thursday, April 4, 2013

[itroundtable] DB Engineering Technical Lead

 


Content Collection Services – DB Engineering
DB Engineering Technical Lead

Company Background
FactSet Research Systems is a major supplier of online integrated financial and economic information to the investment management and banking industries. The Company was formed in 1978 and now conducts operations from fifteen locations worldwide. For analysts, portfolio managers, investment bankers and other financial professionals, FactSet is a comprehensive, one-stop source of financial information and analytics. FactSet combines more than 200 databases into a single online information system.

FactSet, with over $782 Million USD in annual revenues, is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut and employs over 5,400 people worldwide. Our operations extend within North America as well as Europe and the Pacific Rim. Since 1996, the Company has been publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol FDS.

Department Background
The Content Collection Services Database Engineering team specializes in the development and maintenance of proprietary data distribution systems. The team is responsible for developing systems that house and deliver content to FactSet's institutional clients.

In addition to designing and architecting content distribution systems, the CCS DB Engineering team is responsible for providing database engineering services to other FactSet engineers.

This position is responsible for full lifecycle engineering, which includes (but is not limited to) working with Product Developers and Application Engineers, identifying requirements, prioritizing work, gathering functional specifications, performing end-to-end QA, engineering systems and feeds that deliver content to both internal and external clients.

Job Description/Requirements

FactSet is seeking a senior engineer with significant experience in business analysis, technical project leadership, data warehousing, large scale data architecture and logical/physical data modeling. Candidates should also possess expert level experience in full life cycle development (SDLC) of business applications.

• BS, or higher, in CS or IS
• Strong working knowledge of database design fundamentals
• Relational database and dimensional database expertise
• Experience evaluating and optimizing SQL query performance
• Experience maintaining data-driven applications
• Experience in database management and stability tools.
• Experience with data mart and master data management solution architecture design and system technology roadmap to meet business requirements.
• Familiarity with both Agile and Waterfall Project Management techniques
• Work with business stakeholders to develop processes for information lifecycle management for overall architecture to align with business strategies.
• Develop standards and policies to manage data architecture lifecycle and establish governance program for the processes.
• Ability to perform Production Support of mission-critical processes
• Maintain a high level customer service
• Maintain a high level of project quality, and timely project delivery
• Serve as the On-Call engineer in accordance with department policy.
• Affinity for learning new techniques and technologies, particularly as a group effort.
Reply to Ed McCabe at Edward.mccabe@lhh.com

Technical Skill Requirements
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or greater
• Applied knowledge of SQL (preferably T-SQL)
• Applied knowledge of ETL techniques, preferably Microsoft Data Transformation Services (DTS) and SQL Server Integration Services technologies (SSIS).
• Familiarity with the creation of Entity Relationship Diagrams

Additional Desired Technical Skills
• Applied knowledge of Microsoft .NET v3.5 or greater (preferably using C#)
• Applied knowledge of Object Oriented Development
• Applied knowledge of Services Oriented Architecture

FactSet Research Systems Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) and strongly supports diversity in the workforce.

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