Chief KDB Engineer

EPAM Systems Inc; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

EPAM Systems seeks a Chief KDB Engineer to drive the deployment of KX Insights, design batch ETL workflows, and enable end‑of‑day data integration from OMS and ICE sources in a cloud AWS environment.

You will lead integration and enablement with a Cloud Engineering Lead to host, operate, and support the platform, define integration patterns, and document architecture, runbooks, and operational procedures for ongoing support.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of kdb+ engineering and q development.
• 2+ years of leadership in engineering delivery and technical direction.
• Strong project delivery skills across integration and data platform rollouts.
• Hands-on AWS skills to support hosting and operational readiness.
• Strong ETL skills for batch processing and end-of-day pipelines.
• Strong data integration skills with OMS and ICE end-of-day feeds.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills to align across engineering partners and clients.
• Upper-Intermediate English proficiency (B2) for daily collaboration and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Lead deployment of KX Insights in AWS with an operations-ready setup.
• Design batch ETL processing to load, transform, and validate end-of-day datasets.
• Build integrations to ingest end-of-day data from OMS and ICE sources.
• Coordinate enablement activities to help partner teams adopt the platform effectively.
• Define integration patterns, interfaces, and data flows across components.
• Collaborate with a Cloud Engineering lead to host, operate, and support the platform.
• Troubleshoot pipeline and platform issues to maintain stability and reliability.
• Document architecture, runbooks, and operational procedures for ongoing support.

Skills

KDB+ engineering

Q development

Leadership

Cloud integration

AWS

ETL processing

Data integration

Stakeholder management

Tools

KX Insights

OMS data feeds

ICE data feeds

Job description

We are seeking a Chief KDB Engineer to drive the deployment of KX Insights, batch ETL workflows, and end‑of‑day data integration from OMS and ICE sources in a cloud environment. You will lead integration and enablement while collaborating closely with a Cloud Engineering Lead to operate the platform in AWS.

Responsibilities

• Lead deployment of KX Insights in AWS with an operations‑ready setup
• Design batch ETL processing to load, transform, and validate end‑of‑day datasets
• Build integrations to ingest end‑of‑day data from OMS and ICE sources
• Coordinate enablement activities to help partner teams adopt the platform effectively
• Define integration patterns, interfaces, and data flows across components
• Collaborate with a Cloud Engineering lead to host, operate, and support the platform
• Troubleshoot pipeline and platform issues to maintain stability and reliability
• Document architecture, runbooks, and operational procedures for ongoing support

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience with kdb+ engineering and q development
• 2+ years of leadership experience leading engineering delivery and technical direction
• Strong project delivery skills across integration and data platform rollouts
• Hands‑on AWS skills to support hosting and operational readiness
• Strong ETL skills for batch processing and end‑of‑day pipelines
• Strong data integration skills with OMS and ICE end‑of‑day feeds
• Excellent stakeholder management skills to align across engineering partners and clients
• Upper‑Intermediate English proficiency (B2) for daily collaboration and documentation