KDB Developer

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Hybrid Work 2-3 days work from client office in Downtown Toronto OR Mississauga**

KDB/q Developer

Our client is seeking a hands-on developer with experience in KDB/q to support real-time and historical data processing needs within its Markets Technology group. This role focuses on building high-performance analytics platforms to support trading surveillance market data and regulatory reporting using in-house and open-source Flink deployments (not Confluent).

Key Responsibilities

• Design implement and maintain streaming data pipelines using Apache Flink (open-source non-Confluent) to process high-volume trade and market data.
• Develop and optimize KDB/q applications for storing and analysing tick data order books and market microstructure analytics.
• Collaborate with traders quants and risk teams to deliver solutions for real-time decision support and post-trade analysis.
• Integrate Flink-based services with Kafka internal APIs and downstream data consumers.
• Support internal infrastructure teams on deployment monitoring and tuning of clusters.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• 3 years of experience in KDB/q development for real-time and historical analytics platforms.
• 2 years of experience in queryoptimizationschemadesign forlargetime-seriesdatasets real-timedataprocessingmemoryand CPUtuning
• Strong understanding of trading workflows market data feeds and risk systems in investment banking
• Experience with Kafka for stream ingestion and distribution.
• Familiarity with low-latency system design performance tuning and distributed computing.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work with global teams across Markets and Risk.
• Solid understanding of Agile methodologies and CI/CD processes.
• Strong problem-solving skillswith the ability to prioritize multiple tasks set goals and meet deadlines.
• Excellent communication skills capable of articulating complex technical concepts in a multicultural team environment.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Prior experience in Equities FX or Fixed Income trading technology.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools and infrastructure-as-code frameworks (e.g. Ansible Terraform).