About Coalition Greenwich and PriceMetrix

PriceMetrix is a prominent entity within Coalition Greenwich, and the premier provider of practice management software for wealth management firms across North America.

Leveraging advanced analytics and industry benchmarking, PriceMetrix empowers financial advisors and their firms to enhance their client experience and effectively drive business growth.

Coalition Greenwich builds analytics and business intelligence products that are integral to how the world’s largest corporate and investment banks and fintechs measure, plan and improve their businesses.

These products include market analysis and benchmarking against peers on market share, technology, revenue performance, client relationship share and quality, operational excellence, return on equity, brand perception, behavioural drivers, and analysis on industry evolution.

Our customers include all of the largest financial institutions, and we are the market leader in our space. Coalition Greenwich is a division of CRISIL, a $5bn market cap global analytics company which is majority owned by S&P Global.

About The Role

Crisil is seeking an experienced database administrator to join the team that operates the PriceMetrix SaaS platform.

You will be responsible for the reliability and performance of the databases and data processes that deliver service to our clients. You will deploy, monitor, optimize and troubleshoot issues with code and infrastructure related to our large-scale databases and data processes. As a member of the Platform Operations team, you will collaborate with colleagues in Infrastructure, Product Development, Analytics and other teams.

An industry leader in data analytics, Crisil provides opportunities to develop your leadership and technical skills. We offer a combination of working in our office in downtown Toronto and at home.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor, optimize, and resolve issues related to the reliability, performance, and security of large-scale databases and complex data processes

• Partner with Infrastructure team in monitoring, provisioning and right-sizing of servers and storage

• Collaborate with Product Development team on enhancements and resolving nonfunctional issues: provide insights from UAT and Production environments; share expertise in optimizing SQL and physical aspects of databases

• Proactively identify and advocate for improvements to technology and methods used to deploy, configure, and maintain databases and data processes

• Effectively communicate business benefits, costs, and implications of proposed changes to non-technical and more senior colleagues

• Contribute to SQL coding standards and conduct code reviews

• Create and maintain technical documentation

Knowledge and Skills

• Expertise in physical schema and infrastructure for databases and data processing: compute and storage for IaaS and PaaS resources in Azure; partitioning and indexing of data

• Advanced SQL coding and applied knowledge of relational database engines, including Microsoft SQL Server and Azure data services

• Experienced in database maintenance, performance monitoring, and debugging

• Apply DevOps practices to automate deployment of databases and ETL/ELT components

• Knowledge of data warehousing is desirable

• Objectively assess potential solutions by balancing business value and technical complexity

• Highly organized and able to balance parallel tasks

• Collaborate effectively with colleagues that span a broad range of roles

• Effectively communicate complex topics to technical and non-technical colleagues

Qualifications

• Proven success as database administrator/engineer for large-scale databases and complex data processes

• 5+ years of professional experience in applicable roles

• Post-secondary education in Computer Science or a similar discipline

What We Can Offer

• A competitive base salary and variable annual bonus.

• A flexible hybrid working policy. Most people come into the office 2-3 days/week. • A healthy work-life balance.

• 25 days annual leave, plus 4 wellness days and public holidays

• Comprehensive benefits program

• Generous employer RRSP contribution

• An annual personal development allowance

• An office walking distance to Union Station