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 data's 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.<...