Data Modeler/Developer

Company: Jefferies
Location: Jersey City
Posted on: May 28, 2023

Job Description:

Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (''Jefferies,'' ''we,'' ''us'' or ''our'') is a U.S.-headquartered global full service, integrated investment banking and securities firm. Our largest subsidiary, Jefferies LLC, a U.S. broker-dealer, was founded in the U.S. in 1962 and our first international operating subsidiary, Jefferies International Limited, a U.K. broker-dealer, was established in the U.K. in 1986. Our strategy focuses on continuing to build out our investment banking effort, enhancing our capital markets businesses and further developing our Leucadia Asset Management alternative asset management platform. We offer deep sector expertise across a full range of products and services in investment banking, equities, fixed income, asset and wealth management in the Americas, Europe and the Middle East and Asia.
Position / Group description:
The Risk Management Technology group provides support to global Risk Management in the areas of technology and information processing for measuring, quantifying, analyzing, controlling, and reporting Risk exposures for traded securities products.
The position is for a Senior developer who will be part of Technology team supporting the Global Risk Management Technology group. The work assignments will include playing a key developer role in major project related work. Projects will include custom development, implementation and integration of vendor products, and enhancement/support of existing on-premise and cloud based systems.
The role will involve the design, testing, implementation, and maintenance of data models, structures, definition, and lineage for both on-prem and cloud native applications. This will be executed by coordinating requirements, schedules, and activities; contributing to team meetings; troubleshooting issues and resolving production problems along with supporting users by developing documentation and assistance tools.
Qualifications
Primary Responsibilities:

• Work as a senior analyst Developer in Risk management Technology.
• Develop and maintain the application data model for on-prem and cloud native data repositories
• Design data structures and relationships that optimize data loading, storage, and retrieval
• Develop and maintain data dictionaries and data lineage documentation for data models and data sets
• Design and implement data access and security controls for both on-prem and AWS services
• Leverage AWS best practices to ensure data models are optimized for performance and scalability
• Develop and maintain data migration and synchronization processes between various systems, sources, and AWS services
• Design and implement processes to monitor and action data quality
• Work closely with business analysts/project managers/other developers/stakeholders to implement business requirements utilizing various programming disciplines on Linux / Microsoft based platforms including OO, scripting and SQL based development.
• Perform initial tests to cover functional and non-functional requirements before users do their UAT.
• Verify implementation, perform functional testing, and deliver the system/module in production. Essential Experience/ Skills:
  • Strong knowledge and experience in database design and management
  • Strong knowledge and experience with data modeling tools such as AWS CloudFormation, Glue, Data Pipeline, Schema Conversion Tool, Redshift, Aurora, Neptune
  • Must have in depth AWS and other cloud native development experience (ex. Lambda, API Gateway, Aurora, Redshift, S3, CloudWatch, Snowflake, Oracle)
  • Hands-on AWS implementation experience across a broad range of AWS services
  • Experience of using GIT based source control repository and tools such as Bitbucket and SourceTree
  • Experience of using Jira for full development cycle (requirement to deployment)
  • Experience in developing components which can handle large data volumes
  • Experience and knowledge of SDLC methodologies and development processes such as requirement gathering, analysis and definition, prototyping, proof of concept, designing and implementation
  • Strong SQL skills and experience with Oracle, AWS, Snowflake, or other RDBMS data platforms
  • Bachelor's degree, preferably in Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics Preferred:
    --- Experience in the financial services industry, preferably with exposure to market risk or counterparty credit risk application
    • Knowledge of market risk domain like VaR, PnL vectors, various methods to calculate portfolio VaR, sensitivities etc. Personal Attributes:
      • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex data related issues
      • Strong verbal and written communication skills
      • Self-starter and entrepreneurial in approach
      • Ability to escalate / follow-up proactively
      • Good time management skills
        The salary range for this role is $150,000-$225,000
        At Jefferies, we believe that diversity fosters creativity, innovation and thought leadership through the infusion of new ideas and perspectives. We have made a commitment to building a culture that provides opportunities for all employees regardless of our differences and supports a workforce that is reflective of the communities where we work and live. As a result, we are able to pool our collective insights and intelligence to provide fresh and innovative thinking for our clients.
        Jefferies is an equal employment opportunity employer. We practice equal opportunity for all, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, genetic information, reproductive health decisions, or any other factor protected by law. We are committed to hiring the most qualified applicants and complying with all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws. As part of this commitment, Jefferies will extend reasonable accommodations to individuals with qualified disabilities, as appropriate, under applicable law.
        All employees must follow Jefferies' COVID-19 protocol policy, which is subject to change.

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