Perl Data Developer Tech Lead - Financial Leader! (onsite), United States, IL, Chicago

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Posted: October  3, 2006

Job title:
Perl Data Developer Tech Lead - Financial Leader!

Company name: Tekleaders

Internal ID: dd1

Location: United States, IL, Chicago

Pay rate: 110,000 - 190,000 USD DOE

Travel: 0%

Terms of employment: Salaried employee

Length of employment: Permanent

Hours: Full time

Onsite: yes

Description:
Come join the Data Developer team as a Technical Lead for one of the
world’s most dynamic financial firms.  In this challenging role, you’ll be
responsible for working with a range of data sets, analyzing, filtering,
and pulling into different databases. You’ll work very closely with the
trading desk and researchers to develop state-of-the-art automated trading
and analytics systems.

Responsibilities will include:
- Quickly understand trader needs
- Analyze and understand the data options from multiple suppliers
- Data analysis including investigation and analysis, documentation,
filtering of bad data pointes, generation of user reports, etc.
- Communicate data needs internally and externally with 3rd parties
- Access different patterns and plan usage of different data sets.  
- Influence data architecture that can help facilitate a front to back
solution

Qualifications:
- Must have scripting experience: e.g. Perl, for hands on population of
database, data parsing, etc.
- Must have database experience with Sybase and or any vector/time series
database technology
- Must have data modeling skills and familiarity with sql
- Any familiarity with database connectivity from/to Matlab (or more
generic from/to C++ or Java) is a plus
- C++ development experience is a plus
- Domain experience around equity derivatives and common data sets used for
valuation (dividends, rates, vol curves, etc) is a plus
- Data skills should include experience with storage and maintenance of
data sets being derived internally, as well as from different
external/vendor providers of data sets (e.g. market, option metrics, Barra,
Bloomberg, Thomson, etc)

You’ll be rewarded with a unique opportunity to work with some of the
financial industry’s best and brightest.  This is a company that rewards
creativity and initiative.


Required skills: perl, sql

Desired skills: c++, sybase, trading, financial

Contact information at:
http://jobs.perl.org/job/4731#contact