Database Developer

Job Description

: About Our Organization:

Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content for more than 130 years and today has one of the world’s largest news-gathering operations globally. It is home to leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal, America’s largest newspaper by paid circulation; Barron’s, MarketWatch, Mansion Global, Financial News, Investor’s Business Daily, Factiva, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, OPIS and Chemical Market Analytics. Dow Jones is a division of News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV).

About the Team:

OPIS, a Dow Jones company, provides price transparency across the global fuel supply chain, including the Spot, Wholesale Rack and Retail markets. OPIS enables customers to buy and sell energy commodities with confidence with multi-platform access to accurate data, real-time news, powerful software and educational events. Our commitment to reliability is reinforced by personalized customer service and constant innovation. OPIS listens to what the energy community needs and responds with flexible and easy-to-use products. Navigating world fuel markets is complex – OPIS makes it simpler.

About the Role:

At its core, OPIS uses a set of complex IT systems and tools, handling huge amounts of data in a reliable way, and providing customers with business applications to use this data as efficiently as possible. We architect and design for high-availability, scalable, and fault tolerant systems that are decoupled and easy-to-maintain. A core part of our development philosophy revolves around microservices and the DevOps model. All new products are developed as microservices, with a focus on cloud native development and containers deployed on Container as a Service (CaaS) container management systems. The developers on our teams subscribe to a DevOps model where time to market (TTM) is a vital measure that we are constantly striving to improve. Quality is imperative and SQA is considered a part of the development process. As such, automated unit testing, regression, and integration tests are considered a key part of reaching our TTM goals.

You Will:

• Deliver value to our customers, our organization, and our team

• Collaborate with technical and functional partners to build data solutions that transform raw data into critical data and insight

• Research and evaluate technology choices and implementation options

• Embrace agile development and live it every day

• Embrace continuous integration, delivery and improvement

• Embrace high quality in everything you touch

• Take pride in your work and own it

You Have:

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, related technical field, or equivalent experience

• 1+ years of database developer experience (SQL Server, PostgreSql, Snowflake or equivalent)

• Strong experience in creating data models for the integration of multiple systems

• Strong experience in creating and maintaining stored procedures

• Strong experience in writing SQL queries and statements to explore source data and data issues

• Experience with database performance monitoring and tuning

• Experience with data architecture and design for large-scale data solutions

• Knowledge of Amazon Web Service (AWS) or other cloud computing platforms

• Knowledge of C#, Microsoft .Net framework, Python or other programming languages

• Must speak and write in English fluently; Effective communicator

Does this sound like you?

• A strong analytical thinker with a love for planning and organization who can manage competing demands with minimal supervision

• A self-starter with a never-ending curiosity to learn and solve problems

• A critical thinker, with mad problem-solving skills

• A team player with great interpersonal and communication skills

• A structured developer, with good time-management skills

If these things strike a chord with you, we should talk.

We’d also love to hear about your experiences with any of the following:

• Degrees, Certifications, and/or awards/recognition that you have achieved

• Knowledge of SDLC, Agile methodology and/or SCRUM

• Experience working with scripts under source control (Git/TFVC/Mercurial/Svn/etc)

• Experience being part of a continuous integration and deployment process

• Experience using database monitoring tools (like tools from SolarWinds or RedGate)

Our Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Plans

• Paid Time Off

• Retirement Plans

• Comprehensive Insurance Plans

• Education Benefits

• Family Care Benefits

• Commuter Transit Program

• Subscription Discounts

• Employee Referral Program

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets .

Dow Jones is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities, in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application, due to a disability, please reach out to us at TalentResourceT. Please put "Reasonable Accommodation" in the subject line.

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Business Area: Dow Jones - OPIS

Job Category: Software Product Engineering

Union Status:

Non-Union role

Since 1882, Dow Jones has been finding new ways to bring information to the world’s top business entities. Beginning as a niche news agency in an obscure Wall Street basement, Dow Jones has grown to be a worldwide news and information powerhouse, with prestigious brands including The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, Factiva, Barron’s, MarketWatch and Financial News.

This longevity and success is due to a relentless pursuit of accuracy, depth and innovation, enhanced by the wisdom of past experience and a solid grasp on the future ahead. More than its individual brands, Dow Jones is a modern gateway to intelligence, with innovative technology, advanced data feeds, integrated solutions, expert research, award-winning journalism and customizable apps and delivery systems to bring the information that matters most to customers, when and where they need it, every day.

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Req ID: 41691