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Java DB Developer

About the company
MSCI Barra is a leading provider of risk management analytics, global indices and related services to the global investment community including domestic and international Asset Managers (long only, hedge funds, etc), Broker-Dealers, Pension Funds and Consultants.  For over 40 years, MSCI Barra has been tracking the world's markets and delivering innovative solutions that combine advanced technology, superior analytics, research, models and proprietary data  as tools that investment professionals use to help them make their investment decisions.   The product range spans all asset classes including equity, fixed income, credit, derivatives, etc.
MSCI Barra is headquartered in New York, and conducts business worldwide with operations in Berkeley, Budapest, Geneva, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Monterrey, London and Singapore, with regional representative offices in Cape Town, Chicago, Dubai, Frankfurt, Milan, Paris, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Shanghai, Stamford, Sydney and Tokyo. (www.mscibarra.com).

We are currently seeking a Platform Software Engineer to join our Common Platform product development team in our Budapest office.

Position overview

We are seeking an outstanding software engineer to join our Common Platform product development team in our Budapest office. As a member of our team, this candidate will be responsible for all aspects of software development in our data access layer, our database systems, and our data transformation software module. The candidate will be expected to work in both Windows and Linux environments and have had prior experience with both operating systems. We are looking for someone with strong interpersonal, communications, and analytic skills. The ideal candidate will excel in their ability to work closely with our global departments in data production, data analysis, and software engineering. Prior knowledge of finance and financial data is important, but not required, for the position.

The Common Platform is MSCIBarra's innovative web-based product, allowing users to interactively evaluate portfolios and produce risk reports through an online software vehicle.  The product is a multi-tier, distributed, true 24x7x365 website, aimed at providing world-class risk analytics while also streamlining clients’ usage workflows and eliminating clients’ costs of locally installed software.  The product employs many flavors of risk analytics, most notably factor-based risk modeling, historical value-at-risk, Monte Carlo value-at-risk, performance attribution, and stress testing.  Major analytical tools include portfolio optimization, personalized portfolio tree and strategy analysis and management, batch portfolio & user data importing, batch exporting, multiple portfolio comparison, and trade scenarios. The platform’s functionality is enhanced by a wide range of third party financial data, aiding investment professionals worldwide accurately evaluate their portfolio risk throughout the history of their portfolios’ lives.

Responsibilities

• As a member of our team, this candidate will be responsible for all aspects of software development in
  • our data access layer,
  • our database systems, and
  • our data transformation software module. 
• The candidate will be expected to work in both Windows and Linux environments and have had prior experience with both operating systems. 
• We are looking for someone with strong interpersonal, communications, and analytic skills. 
• The ideal candidate will excel in their ability to work closely with our global departments in data production, data analysis, and software engineering. Prior knowledge of finance and financial data is important, but not required, for the position.

Desired experience and qualifications

• Strong programming skills in Java
• Strong knowledge of Linux, UNIX, and Windows platforms
• Strong experience in relational database systems, including data modeling, database development and programming, database configuration and maintenance, and database tuning
• Experience in Ruby, JRuby (or other interpreted language)
• Experience as a software engineer in a product development team environment
• Experience with object-oriented development
• Experience with Object Relational Mapping, Persistency Layer
• Demonstrated experience with data mining through UNIX/Linux text parsing, regular expressions, and scripting (e.g. awk, sed, perl, ruby or other interpreted languages)
• Experience with single-threaded or multi-threaded Linux processes.
• Strong communications skills

Preferable skills

• Experience with the BerkeleyDB open source database technology
• Knowledge of networking protocols such as FTP, SSH, RCP and TCP/IP
• Experience with a major database platform (Oracle preferred, Microsoft SQL Server required)
• Formal training in software engineering and computer technology
• Experience in distributes transaction and database systems
• Experience with Google Appengine datastores (Memcache, Blob store)

Due to the great number of applications we receive for each of our open vacancies, we are unable to respond on an individual basis.
If you have not been contacted within two weeks of having submitted your resume, it is likely that your application has not been successful on this occasion.