Lead Database Technologist - ValiantIQ INC

Job Title: Lead Database Technologist

Job Duration: Permanent Role

Job Location: St. Louis, MO(Onsite)

Client Name: Guggenheim Partners, LLC

Need candidates who have strong personality fit and cultural fit.

Referral: 30% margin on profit

Relocation acceptable

Client Notes

1- Experience with big financial Institutions

2- SQL development

3- BA skills

4- Solution Driven, Problem solving Individual

5- Inquisitive Personality

** Client will be willing to help the right individual with a relocation Package

Louie - Candidates so far – lacked the technical skills, not enough based SQL

AND from a sot skills standpoint, didn't present themselves as leaders

Looking or someone to take it to the next level

Diane – agree with Louie, and concerned that the candidates had difficulty explaining their experience, something they're most proud of

Also, she felt like they worked with getting data from point A to point B but didn't get the feeling they manipulated the data

And no creativity – coming up wit new ideas and how to solve problems

AND, when they got stuck, most said they had a team of 4 or 5 (to rely on) so no creative solutions or problem solving

Don – candidates had no questions, no interest in the company, no interest in financial services

! ask about the culture, the team, what it's like to work there, and show some interest in the business off what they do

! I'm looking forward to being part of a team

! shift emphasis to business acumen, ability to gather requirements and be able to get to the solution, place less interest on the technical skills, so more of a Product Owner

SQL is more important than C#

Strong experience with Excel and ability to analyze data

But not on the support/administration side

They want more of a visionary – how has he taken teams or projects or platforms and advanced them?

Someone who is proactive rather than reactive

What You'll Do:

• Document current state of systems, processes, and users.
• Derive strategy and roadmap to identify advancements in platform through modern technologies and processes.
• Work with business representatives to understand business needs and/or limitations and resulting requirements; identify gaps in requirements for business representatives and ensure requirements are complete before moving on to specs phase.
• Develop detailed specs for enhancements or modules of new systems that are clearly aligned to system requirements as defined by business representatives and can be easily interpreted by the business representatives and other engineers.
• Work with business representatives to understand outcomes of testing phase; identify solutions to resolve issues.
• Interact with team members (Business Representatives, Managers, other Software Engineers, and users) as needed to ensure successful delivery, implementation and release of enhancements or other projects.
• Manage the backlog of work items.
• Develop and support applications which provide essential solutions for clients; will include debugging current systems or programming enhancements or modules of new systems.
• Take ownership for assigned portion of project from start to finish to ensure successful implementation.
• Maintain system-wide tests to continually improve products, services, and processes.
• Implement systems software engineering policies and procedures and implements software development industry best practices.
• Apply compliance requirements within scope of responsibility, provide documentation as necessary, and participate in compliance activities as required.
• Monitor and manage external data feeds. 

What You Bring:
Preferred Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in the financial services industry, specifically investment management/consulting.
• Source code control (TFS/Git).
• SQL Server Integration Services.
• Team player attitude, good interpersonal skills.
• Good organizational skills and superior problem-solving ability.
• Demonstrate sound logic and judgment.
• Creative/Innovated approach to projects.
• Scrum/agile development.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and prioritize appropriately.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. 

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.
• Must have completed a BA/BS degree.
• Understanding of generally accepted tools and techniques that align with current technology stack:

• SQL Server/T-SQL
• Data analysis / data models / data engineering
• Business Intelligence

• Knowledge and interest in technologies that align with future architectures:

• Cloud technologies
• Modern Data Platform architectures 

Thanks & Regards,

Sonu Uprati

Technical Recruiter- ValiantIQ Inc.

"Searching Best Minds ■ Searching Best Minds"

Email: suprati@valiant-iq.com
P. 217-296-7483 F. (302) 482-3672

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