Sr Associate KDB Development

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Why join us

FX eRisk Team in Bangalore, Markets Front Office is part of the GFX Cash Business majorly focusing on FX and commodity electronic trading franchise. The team is part of GFX, Commodity and EM rates global vertical.

You will join a global team in a Tier 1 European Investment Bank. You will be 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, Commodities & EM Rates)
• For the testing and operation of our GFX algorithmic trading & pricing systems
• For a wide range of Data Analytics
• For reports to our customers, regulatory and internal financial markets trading desks

Opportunity:

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 behavior-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 analyze and implement business requirements

What you'll do:

Development of real-time and historical Data Analytics services:

• Develop & Maintain existing KDB Infrastructure for Analytics & Research
• Implementing analytics and reporting MI for the Quants, Sales and Trading desks
• 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

What you will need to succeed in the role:

• A solid understanding of the fundamentals of the q language and KDB+
• Experience with large scale KDB+ setups & APIs
• Practical knowledge of Linux
• Must be passionate about technology and demonstrate their aptitude for exploring, learning and building technology

What additional skills will be good to have

• Experience in any functional programming languages, C, Python or R will be advantageous

You'll achieve more at HSBC

HSBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and, opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified persons irrespective of, but not limited to, their gender or genetic information, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, social status, medical care leave requirements, political affiliation, people with disabilities, color, national origin, veteran status, etc., We consider all applications based on merit and suitability to the role.

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