Database Infrastructure Java/Python Developer

Company Profile

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm’s employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries.

As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence and strong team ethic. Morgan Stanley can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career – a place for people to learn, to achieve and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles, perspectives and needs is an important part of our culture.

Technology

Technology works as a strategic partner with Morgan Stanley business units and the world’s leading technology companies to redefine how we do business in ever more global, complex, and dynamic financial markets. Morgan Stanley’s sizeable investment in technology results in quantitative trading systems, cutting-edge modelling and simulation software, comprehensive risk and security systems, and robust client-relationship capabilities, plus the worldwide infrastructure that forms the backbone of these systems and tools. Our insights, our applications and infrastructure give a competitive edge to clients’ businesses—and to our own.

Description

The Database Infrastructure Development team provides core infrastructure and technologies to developers and business users inside Morgan Stanley to effectively administrate databases. The team also provides controlled access to databases through automation tools and orchestration engines.

Our global team of database infrastructure developers (New York, Montreal, London, Tokyo, and Shanghai) is looking for a motivated, talented and dynamic Java/Python developer to develop database as a service and change management system for the firm’s Distributed Database environment. You will also focus on enhancing the current Distributed Database administration toolset and automation strategy while working in both physical and virtual Linux environments across various DBMS products (IBM DB2, SAP ASE(Sybase), SQL Server, Greenplum, PostgreSQL, Teradata).

Duties / Responsibilities:

• Develop change management system for various database product (IBM DB2, SAP ASE(Sybase), SQL Server, Greenplum, PostgreSQL, Teradata)
• Implement the web interface for database provisioning and self-service tools.
• Develop restful API for database as a service (DBAAS) and integrate with database configuration management system.
• Integrate new database products and technologies into the system

Skills Required:

• Strong programming skills in Java J2EE, core Java programming skills and Python
• Experience with Spring, SOAP, WebServices, Rest
• Experience with JavaScript
• Experience working with a relational database management system (RDBMS) like SAP ASE (Sybase), PostgreSQL, IBM DB2 or SQL Server.
• A working knowledge of UNIX (Linux, SunOS, etc.).
• Have good communications, both verbal and written, of English.

Skills Desired:

• Experience working with database change management systems.
• Knowledge of the internal data structures of at least one major DBMS product.
• Experience working and managing software on a large distributed environment.
• Experience or knowledge of Agile software development methodologies.
• Knowledge of common IT processes, including ITIL and SDLC.
• Ability to reason persuasively to influence decision makers at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to manage conflicting priorities and multiple tasks simultaneously