Lead Consultant | Capital Markets | Wealth Management

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and support KDB+ applications and platform components.
• Design and optimize solutions for real-time and historical market data processing.
• Manage and support large-scale KDB environments handling petabyte-scale data and 500+ users.
• Integrate KDB+ with real-time messaging platforms such as Solace, Kafka, and ION.
• Implement DevOps, automation, monitoring, and platform reliability practices.
• Troubleshoot performance issues and ensure platform stability and scalability.

Required Skills

• KDB+ & q
• Strong experience in KDB+ development, administration, and production support.
• Deep understanding of:
  • q language, data structures, and datatypes
  • Array-oriented programming
  • q-SQL and KDB-specific joins (asof, window joins)
  • KDB database architecture, storage, and query optimization
  • Inter-process communication
  • Tickerplant, RDB, HDB, Gateway, and chained process architectures
• Real-Time Data Platforms
• Experience integrating KDB+ with Solace, Kafka, or ION.
• Strong understanding of real-time market data processing and distribution.
• Capital Markets
• Strong domain knowledge of:
  • Fixed Income
  • FX
  • Equities
• Experience with trading, market data, or risk analytics platforms.
• DevOps & Production Support
• CI/CD, deployment automation, and environment management.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as ITRS Geneos.
• Strong troubleshooting, performance tuning, and production support skills.

Preferred Experience

• Managing enterprise-scale KDB platforms with petabyte-scale datasets.
• Sustaining global trading environments and mission-critical data platforms.
• Custom Fields
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