KDB Developer

ALLTECH CONSULTING SVC INC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled KDB developer to enhance their multi-terabyte orders and executions platform. This role involves developing infrastructure that supports fast queries and low latency, utilizing a mix of KDB technology and modern data engineering tools like Kafka and Snowflake. As part of a diverse data expert group, you will contribute to building best-of-breed solutions that serve multiple business units and scale to billions of daily orders. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and are passionate about data technologies, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience with KDB and data processing technologies is essential.
• Ability to develop low latency, highly available database systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop KDB infrastructure for fast queries and enhance architecture.
• Create tools for data acquisition, quality, and production support.

Skills

KDB

Q language

Java

C#

Python

Data Engineering

Data Visualization

Machine Learning

Tools

Kafka

Snowflake

Job description

TEDRA is part of the Institutional Securities Technology (IST) Division. It is responsible for maintaining, distributing, and reporting on revenue, risk, and reference data (client, product, and pricing). As the authoritative source of key data sets, we are at the forefront of database technology and are heavily involved in data engineering, data science, data visualization, and machine learning efforts across the Firm.

TEDRA is also responsible for front and middle office post-execution applications that facilitate straight-through processing for multiple asset classes. We are looking for a KDB developer to support & develop multi-terabyte, massively distributed orders and executions platform for equities, rates and fx globally. The system includes a mix of classic KDB technology with new distributed data engineering state of the art systems, e.g. Kafka, Snowflake etc. We are a diverse data expert group specializing in a variety of big data technologies. While KDB is a major part of our offering, we aim to architect best of breed solutions using a best tool for the job approach. The platform serves many businesses and scales to billions of daily orders. The ideal candidate would be capable of navigating KDB and other data processing technologies.

Responsibilities:

1. Develop current kdb+ based infrastructure to ensure support for queries from native Q and other languages (including Java, C#, python) and enhance the architecture to support a low latency, fast ingestion, highly available database.
2. The goal is to provide easy access to a broad range of analytics, pricing and market information for the business units to help them make informed business decisions.
3. Develop tools for data acquisition/loading, data quality, and production support covering a broad range of asset classes, data types, and frequencies that meet current and future analytic, and operational needs.
4. Develop modularized, micro service based components.