KDB+/Q Engineer

Job Title: KDB+/Q Engineer

Location: Central London

Job Type: 6-month contract

Daily rate: £450/500 per day INSIDE IR35

We are seeking a highly skilled KDB+/Q Engineer to join our dynamic engineering team. The successful candidate will be responsible for building, enhancing, and maintaining data-driven applications and systems using KDB+ and Q programming language to handle large volumes of time-series data. You will collaborate with quant researchers, traders, and engineers to develop high-performance solutions for real-time analytics and data processing.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, maintain, and optimize KDB+ databases and Q-based applications.
• Work with stakeholders to design data models and structures for large-scale time-series data.
• Implement solutions for real-time data ingestion, processing, and analysis.
• Write high-performance Q code to ensure low-latency and high-throughput processing.
• Optimize KDB+ queries for performance, including memory management and indexing strategies.
• Develop and integrate ETL processes for managing data flows from various sources into KDB+.
• Work closely with the quantitative research and trading teams to design and implement tools for real-time decision-making.
• Troubleshoot and debug production issues, ensuring minimal downtime and high system reliability.
• Contribute to architectural decisions related to data storage, retrieval, and real-time data analysis.
• Document code, processes, and workflows to maintain knowledge sharing within the team.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in KDB+/Q technologies and relevant tools.