Job Description

Diversified. Resilient. Dynamic.

Marex is a global financial services platform, providing essential liquidity, market access and infrastructure services to clients in the energy, commodities and financial markets.

The Group provides comprehensive breadth and depth of coverage across four core services: Market Making, Clearing, Hedging and Investment Solutions and Agency and Execution. It has a major franchise in many major metals, energy and agricultural products, executing around 50 million trades and clearing 205 million contracts in 2022. The Group provides access to the world's major commodity markets, covering a broad range of clients that include some of the largest commodity producers, consumers and traders, banks, hedge funds and asset managers.

With more than 35 offices around the globe, and over 2,300 dedicated people enabling access to exchanges and technology-powered services.

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Purpose of Role:

Marex is seekin a Database Administrator is responsible for providing daily support and administration of Marex's database stack including engineering and related projects. The role involves working closely with other infrastructure, development, and support teams.

Marex has unique access across markets with significant share globally both on and off exchange. The depth of knowledge amongst its teams and divisions provides its customers with clear advantage, and its technology-led service provides access to all major exchanges, order-flow management via screen, voice and DMA, plus award-winning data, insights and analytics.

This role is located at the Chicago, IL, USA offices (222 W. Adams Chicago IL) and it is for 3 days per week in-office.

Responsibilities:

• Manage Marex's database stack.
• Assist with daily management of the database architecture covering Production and Non-Production environment.
• Develop best practice standards within the data team and work with development teams to ensure these standards are adhered to.
• Continual development about latest technologies in the data space.
• Capacity planning of database server estate.
• Ensure high availability of the database infrastructure to minimize the duration and impact of any outages.
• Maintain a consistently high level of service delivery for incidents, requests, and changes.
• Provide database support and advice to other infrastructure teams as well as developers and end users.
• Maintain database security standards across the business' database estate.
• Participate in on-call support efforts.
• Ensuring compliance with the company's regulatory requirements under the SEC, FINRA, NFA, CFTC and other applicable exchanges.
• Adhere to the operational risk framework for your role ensuring that all regulatory or company determined parameters are complied with.
• Role model for demonstrating highest level standards of integrity and conduct and reflecting Company Values.
• At all times complying with Marex's Code of Conduct:
  • To ensure that you are fully aware of and adhere to internal policies that relate to you, your role or any other activities for which you have any level of responsibility
  • To report any breaches of policy to Compliance and/ or your supervisor as required
  •  To escalate risk events immediatelyTo provide input to risk management processes, as required.
    

The Company may require you to carry out other duties from time to time.

Competencies, Skills and Experience :

Competencies

• A collaborative team player, approachable, self-efficient, and influences a positive work environment.
• Demonstrates curiosity
• A desire to learn and understand more about the Business environment in which you work.
• Resilient in a challenging, fast-paced environment
• Ability to take a high level of responsibility in a fast pace and high-volume environment
• Excels at building relationships, networking and influencing other
•  Strategic collaborator with insight and agility, able to anticipate future challenges, ensuring operational effectiveness.
• Able to communicate effectively with varied colleagues ranging from senior stakeholders in different business areas to technical implementation teams.
  
• Ability to think long-term and show value in small but frequent advancements.
• Ability to understand industry trends and best practices and be selective about what is applicable to the business.

Skills and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field desired
• At least three (3) years experience in database administration or similar discipline.
• Strong technical knowledge of SQL Server Database
• Advance Scripting skills such as T-SQL, PL-SQL
• Other Scripting skills such as PowerShell, Python etc.
• High Availability and Disaster Recovery such as SQL Always on etc.
• Ability to demonstrate performance diagnosis and tuning techniques including database internals, OS, Storage and Query Processor Fundamentals
• Experience of data cloud technologies - AWS RDS/Azure Managed instance etc
• Administration of alternative database technologies such as ORACLE, MongoDB desired.
• Experience with AWS/Azure/ORACLE OCI desired.
• Broad technical understanding of Windows/Linux desired.
• Experience working in an Agile/SCRUM environment desired.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
•  Experience working in a regulated environment and knowledge of the risk and compliance requirements associated with this

Salary Range: $100,000 to $150,000 per year and eligible for discretionary bonus.

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Company Values

Acting as a role model for the values of the Company:

Respect

– Clients are at the heart of our business, with superior execution and superb client service the foundation of the firm. We respect our clients and always treat them fairly.

Integrity
– Doing business the right way is the only way. We hold ourselves to a high ethical standard in everything we do – our clients expect this and we demand it of ourselves.

Collaborative
– We work in teams – open and direct communication and the willingness to work hard and collaboratively are the basis for effective teamwork. Working well with others is necessary for us to succeed at what we do.

Developing our People
– Our people are the basis of our competitive advantage. We look to “grow our own” and make Marex the place ambitious, hardworking, talented people choose to build their careers.

Adaptable and Nimble
– Our size and flexibility is an advantage. We are big enough to support our client's various needs, and adaptable and nimble enough to respond quickly to changing conditions or requirements. A non-bureaucratic, but well controlled environment fosters initiative as well as employee satisfaction.

Marex is fully committed to the elimination of unlawful or unfair discrimination and values the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the company.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by the law.

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