What are the responsibilities and job description for the SQL Server Database Administrator (DBA) position at Jacobs Levy Equity Management?
Jacobs Levy, located in Florham Park, NJ, is seeking a SQL Server Database Administrator. We are looking for a highly motivated and talented DBA to build and manage a best in class database platform for our quantitative investment applications. The candidate will be a database developer and also participate in other application development efforts.
Responsibilities include:
- Manage database Disaster Recovery and High Availability for quantitative financial data, portfolio management, and trading databases
- Install and upgrade the SQL Server database instances in all environments including but not limited to development, QA and Production
- Design and develop quantitative investment applications, system interfaces, databases, and reporting as required to deliver new systems functionality
- Perform data analysis, SQL optimization, database tuning, and general database reliability analysis
- Proactively monitor the database systems to ensure secure operations with minimum downtime
- Collaborate with the development team throughout the system lifecycle, providing guidance on table design, index optimization, and SQL query best practices
- Responsible for implementation and release of database changes as submitted by the development team
- Apply security patches in accordance with approved maintenance schedules
- Oversee data processing workflows and ensure proper monitoring
Requirements include:
- Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Proven 5 years of SQL Server Database Administration experience
- 5 years of SQL development experience including package/procedure/trigger/scripting development in a multi-user production environment
- Ability to understand requirements and create tables, views, stored procedures, functions and also support SQL deployment to multiple environments
- Experience with SQL Server High Availability configurations and disaster recovery
- Experience in C or C is a significant plus
- Familiarity with equity market data (S&P Global, Bloomberg, LSEG/Refinitiv, FactSet, etc.) is a strong plus