Reference Database Operator

At the core of its operations, Interactive Brokers maintains a massive global database of stocks, commodities, financial contracts, exchanges and trading rules. This data drives all brokerage and proprietary trading systems. The database is structured and maintained by experienced programmers and refreshes automatically with daily uploads from hundreds of sources.

Reference Database Operators are content experts. They constantly learn on the job, communicate with data users throughout the company, and maintain contacts at external sources. Daily, they work with developers to improve and design new data-handling procedures.

Responsibilities:

• Answer company-wide questions about the datas nature, completeness and correctness, using judgment and primary sources to determine whether on-the-fly updates are warranted.
• Handle special cases when the system structure is incomplete, consulting with developers to generalize further and automate.
• On-board new data sources and maintain external relationships.
• Work closely with developers to integrate new data sets into the existing database structure. Plan upload protocol and sanity checks to ensure data integrity.
• Design error handling procedures to minimize reliance on manual intervention.
• Write and maintain comprehensive guides to the data for users and developers.

Qualifications:

Reference Database Operators are precise and patient, and they are good communicators. Three years of experience in the financial industry. Evidence of knowledge of financial products.