Database Reporting Engineer / Financial Services / 12-Month Extendable Contract
Join a global financial services firm to develop and support innovative reporting solutions for trade data, serving clients across sales, trading, risk, finance, operations, and technology in a dynamic, collaborative environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Liaise with clients to understand their data needs and respond to urgent regulatory-related data inquiries
- Develop reports using SQL, Business Objects, Qlikview, PERL, and Python
- Perform database query performance tuning across DB2, Sybase, and Snowflake
- Analyze reporting tasks to identify optimal data sources and extraction techniques
- Collaborate with an offshore team of developers on task prioritization and escalation
What We're Looking For:
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (implied from technical requirements)
- SQL development experience with Sybase, DB2, Greenplum, and Snowflake
- Strong knowledge of relational databases, SQL, and SQL tuning
- Strong UNIX/PERL/Python scripting skills
- Self-starter with strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
- Team player able to learn quickly and collaborate across global teams
- Highly motivated to expand technical and business knowledge
- Fluent understanding of the complete software development lifecycle
- Experience in the financial services industry (preferred)
- Proficiency in PERL and Python (or Java/C# with willingness to learn PERL) (preferred)
- Knowledge of Business Objects, Qlikview, Tableau, or Sigma (preferred)
Argyll Scott Asia is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
Argyll Scott Asia is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.