KDB developer - Digital Business Services

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HSBC Digital Business Services is a pivotal part of the Group, providing essential operational and technical support to our global businesses and helping improve customer service and efficiency. Digital Business Services combines global expertise and technology to help keep us ahead of the competition.

We are currently seeking a high calibre professional to join our team as a KDB Developer.

Principal Responsibilities

You will join a global tech team in a Tier 1 European Investment Bank. The team is responsible for designing, developing and operating a fast, real-time, time series big data application. We process in excess of 3TB of financial markets data per day - translating to over 4 billion records per day (orders, trades quotes and prices). You will be developing technical services to handle this data and to make it available for a variety of purposes. Your services will be used:

• By our quantitative analysts in the trading business for research and back-testing of trading algorithms used for pricing, trading, hedging and algorithmic execution in our Global Foreign Exchange business (GFX)
• For the testing and operation of our GFX algorithmic trading systems
• For a wide range of Data Analytics
• For reports to our customers, regulatory and internal financial markets trading desks

Purpose of the job:

As a senior KDB developer, the successful candidate will be expected to operate according to industry best practices:

• Implement best-of-breed technical solutions based on agreed technical design, adopting industry standard development patterns and methodologies, including behaviour-driven development with continuous integration / automated unit and integration testing
• Work with other team members and liaise with nominated business stakeholders when required to ensure that business requirements are fully understood before commencing design and development
• Draw-up detailed technical designs for components in response to business requirements and high-level technical architecture
• Fully test implemented solutions in advance of User Acceptance Testing
• Assist (when required) with the deployment of components to development and test environments
• Developers in our team are expected to own the end to end delivery of software from analysis through to release to production and support. We work in small iterative cycles and release software daily to production
• Everyone in our team releases code to production, raises production change requests and assists in production support
• Using the application's functional and vector programming language to analyse and implement business requirements as requested

Development of real-time and historical Data Analytics services:

• Implementing analytics and reporting MI for the Quants, Sales and Trading desks
• Develop infrastructure and software for load balancing and scaling the architecture to support different business use cases and data growth
• Development of tools and processes for automated deployment of services to our globally distributed infrastructure running on premise and on the cloud
• Development of modules and services to be used as building blocks, such as data analytics, monitoring and metrics for both business trading and system events
• Design and implementation of data feeds for trades, orders, exchange market data, tradable market prices and many other sources
• Tuning and optimizing services and modules for performance and volume

Requirements

Technical Knowledge

Must have:

• A solid understanding of the fundamentals of the q language and KDB+
• Experience with large scale KDB+ setups
• Practical knowledge of Linux
• Must be passionate about technology and demonstrate their aptitude for exploring, learning and building technology
• Experience in any functional programming languages, C, Python or R will be advantageous

Non-Technical Knowledge

• Be able to work well in a team and be an excellent communicator
• Be interested in solving problems and flexible and adaptable in doing so
• Be able to work under pressure and to deadlines in a dynamic environment
• Interest in going through large datasets and information in order to understand issues and develop software solutions

Domain Knowledge

• Familiarity with operation of Trading Desks
• Foreign Exchange knowledge in a high volume low latency environment would be preferred
• Experience working on large scale systems and agile delivery

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