Belvedere Trading is a leading proprietary trading firm proudly headquartered in downtown Chicago. Our traders work hard to provide liquidity to the market through their market-making activities and are the masters of a diverse set of commodities, interest rates, exchange-traded funds (ETF), and equity index options. From the beginning, we began iteratively investing in our proprietary technology and committing to building our systems from the ground up. Our trading models and software systems are continually re-engineered, optimized, and maintained to stay on top of the industry. This wouldn’t be possible without the dedicated efforts of our technology teams who utilize and perfect our innovative technology solutions. 

High-performance proprietary development is the source of our success and competitive advantage at Belvedere, further fueling our passion for performance. We are a team driven by intellectual curiosity, seeking answers that will change not only how we trade in this technological age, but also the future landscape of the trading industry. We place a high premium on defining, developing, and deploying high-performance trading software using a team-based, holistic development approach. We look for passionate team members that excel and their contribution is critical to our continued success. 

Our team’s focus is to deliver high-quality data solutions to our core and affiliated groups. We strive to understand and support end-user needs which both leverage data for performance analytics and depend on our SQL Server infrastructure backing production trading systems. The data team strives to ensure that properly curated data is in the hands of the people who need it. They deliver the data and tools Belvedere needs to perform complex analytics and make data-driven decisions.

You will lead the design of software and infrastructure to achieve high availability, stability, and integrity of our production SQL Server databases. You will also contribute to the design and operation of our data warehouse and cloud data pipeline processes. As part of the Data Platform Team at Belvedere, you must be ready to dig deeply into complex problems, adapt to changes in technologies and business requirements, and voice your perspective on improving the team experience and outcomes. 

What you'll do

• Own the continuous operation of on-prem and cloud databases (SQL Server, Google BigQuery, Google Cloud SQL)
• Ensure the DBA team quickly respond to incidents affecting the performance and usability of data systems.
• Address performance issues by identifying and implementing solutions, which may involve hardware upgrades, server configuration adjustments, or optimizing queries and indexes.
• Support developers with efficient query and data modeling for traditional SQL, SQL Warehouse, and NoSQL use cases
• Design monitoring, dashboards, and operational health and maintenance plans for our Databases
• Ensure support and diagnose issues with data pipelines, ETL jobs, replication, and other critical systems dependent on databases with DBA team.
• Debug code in applications, notebooks, and batch jobs to identify and improve query performance and behavior.
• Develop a working mastery of our data sources and business use cases through partnering with teams and self-learning. 

• Experience operating and supporting SQL Server database infrastructure
• Experience planning and managing SQL Server rollout and migration within a complex application environment 
• Familiarity with DB change control processes and tools
• Production-tested experience utilizing clustering, mirroring, and replication technologies. 
• Proficiency with query optimization and performance within the database and client side 
• Exposure to modern cloud data warehouses and tools.
• Comfort using or learning to use development languages and tools, esp. Python.
• Attention to detail and curiosity to understand data.
• Experience planning and leading complex projects including migrations, upgrades and architecture evolutions 
• Excellent verbal and written communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Passionate about supporting data consumers and development teams during working hours.
• 7 years of experience preferred.

Core Values

The secret to our award-winning culture is our Core Values: Team Belvedere, Me In Team, Own It, Iterative Innovation, and Passionate Discourse. We live and breathe these values every day.

Our Stance

Belvedere is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to providing a non-discriminatory employment environment for its employees. Discrimination against employees and applicants due to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, military, and veteran status is prohibited. Belvedere encourages initiatives to increase diversity and provide equal opportunity to all applicants and employees. Belvedere is committed to providing a positive environment in which team members are treated with respect, dignity, and courtesy. Our firm believes in a dynamic culture of inclusion and diversity, where people thrive on individual and organizational characteristics, values, experiences, and backgrounds.

Please note that Belvedere Trading does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms or employment agencies. Any unsolicited resumes will become the property of Team Belvedere. No phone calls, please.

Through our efforts to provide a safe environment for you and our team members, all interviews for this position will be conducted virtually via phone or video. We will continue to actively hire and onboard new team members virtually through the remainder of the year unless otherwise noted. Any questions regarding the virtual recruiting process, please reach out to recruiting@belvederetrading.com.

Work Schedule: Regular and reliable attendance during standard business hours with the ability to be on-site prior to the start of business on occasion 

Amount of Travel Required: None

Sponsorship: Not available for this position