What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Database Developer position at Intercontinental Exchange?
Job Purpose
ICE Data Services (an Intercontinental Exchange company) is seeking a multi-faceted Database Developer to join its Core Technology teams. The Core Technology team supports multiple ICE Data Services business including Bond Pricing, Reference Data and Index businesses. This presents a unique opportunity to join a growing technology team providing the infrastructure, framework and data to key, and expanding, ICE businesses. The successful candidate will be able to multitask in a dynamic team-based environment, whilst demonstrating strong problem-solving, extensive technical skills, decision-making abilities and the highest level of professionalism.
The candidate should be able to work independently, handle multiple simultaneous tasks and be adept at prioritizing their work. The candidate will be able to focus on the project priorities to deliver the required product at the scheduled time. They should be comfortable collaborating with business analysts, product managers, quality assurance groups and client services to refine requirements and plan implementation strategies.
The applicant will have experience in problem solving, planning, and estimating development efforts and have strong communication skills. Most importantly they should demonstrate the ability to show initiative and be able to move projects forward to completion with minimal supervision.
The candidate will be expected to be involved in the full life cycle of the systems development from requirement gathering through development and testing to on-going support and maintenance. The position will involve some on-call support outside of regular business hours, nights and weekends.
This Developer will be working in a small group on ICE Data Services core technology including market data, symbology and standing data systems therefore extensive familiarity with such systems is required.
Knowledge and Experience
- Hands-on experience with Oracle Database 21c, 23c
- Strong skills in tuning PL/SQL for performance: bulk processing, native compilation, and profiling
- Proven track record of
- designing and implementing highly scalable database architectures.
- developing efficient schema designs, ensuring data normalization, indexing, and partitioning for optimized performance.
- tuning databases for high-performance query execution, indexing strategies, and caching.
- monitoring and improving read/write latency, replication, and consistency models.
- Expertise in other database technologies such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Google Big Query a plus.
- Very familiar with APIs, messaging middleware, like Kafka, and event-driven architectures for real-time data processing
- Knowledge of Java J2SE or willing to learn it.
- Very comfortable with GNU/Linux, its commands and basic configuration files, and at least one scripting language.
- Very good communication skills.
- Ability to work well in a team or on one's own.
- Provide training and support to other team members on database technologies and best practices.
Preferred
- Experience developing and supporting a real-time trading environment.
- Business knowledge of equity and fixed income securities.
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Intercontinental Exchange is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to diversity in its hiring and business practices. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply.
