Database Developer, BIS, Associate

About the role

BlackRock Index Services (BIS) is responsible for the design, development, and administration of Fixed Income, Equity & Multi-Asset indices for internal and external clients. Our success hinges on producing highly accurate, best-of-breed indices in a timely manner. BIS is looking for an experienced Software Architect to drive the architecture & design of our next generation Equity, Fixed Income & Multi-Asset Index calculation, simulation, and delivery platform.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for all aspects of Database, design, development, testing, support and ensuring compatibility with enterprise and solutions architecture by harnessing modern development technologies
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative indices
• Participate in stakeholder & client discussions and presentations.
• You have a zeal for automating the complete software lifecycle - development, testing, deployment & production operations
• Take pride in guiding and mentoring a team of engineers
• Qualifications, Experience and Skills
• B.S./MS (or equivalent) in a STEM subject area with 4 to 9 years of experience in Enterprise Software Development
• Experience in designing and developing Indexing solutions for Equity / Fixed Income / Real Estate asset classes is a must
• In-depth understanding of RDBMS & SQL technologies Database design with experience on Oracle / MS SQL Server / Sybase / Snowflake
• Experience with using normalization techniques for database design
• Experience with design & development of ETL solutions
• Expertise in tuning SQL code for high performance & throughput
• Solid understanding of execution plans on RDBMS
• Good understanding and knowledge of Unix/Linux and related infrastructure
• Ability to analyze & compare solutions for space-time complexity and trade-offs
• Superior problem solving and troubleshooting skills and perseverance to identity Root cause of any problem
• Experience in developing and supporting high performance, low-latency, high availability systems
• Well versed with using AI tools for coding and debugging
• Nice to have skills
• Experience with cloud native development (Kubernetes, Docker) and Cloud Platform like Microsoft Azure
• Experience with design & development of ReSTful Webservices using HTTP-JSON / gRPC and Service Mesh architecture is desirable
• Experience with Distributing Computing Technologies like Apache Ignite/ Hazelcast
• Experience with Java technology stack (Spring, JDBC, Hibernate, Apache Tomcat, JBoss, Maven, Jenkins, JUnit)
• Knowledge of Core and Enterprise Java using multi-threading and networking frameworks
• Python development experience with good knowledge of numerical / statistics / ML packages such as pandas, numpy, scipy and cvxpy
• Experience working in an agile software development environment and with related technologies (Git, JIRA, ADO)
• Technical writing skills
• Experience with BlackRock Aladdin platform and dashboard technologies is a plus
• Experience implementing solutions that interface with financial services industry is highly desirable
• Data providers such as Bloomberg, Reuters, FT Interactive Data, Factset, Rimes
• Index vendors such as MSCI, S&P, Barclays, JP Morgan
• Passionate about multiple aspects of enterprise software development - Performance, Scale, Resilience, Usability and Maintainability.
• Meticulous planner, well-organized engineer with strong attention to detail and an uncompromising approach to quality

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