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Senior KDB+ Developer
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Senior KDB+ Developer
Senior KDB+/q Real-Time Market Data Engineer (IR35 contratct)
Rate & Location
- Rate: Up to £1,200 per day (inside IR35)
- Location: London (3 days a week)
- Contract Length: 12 months
About the Role
A senior hire opportunity within a leading global financial institution’s Real-Time Market Data Engineering Team. The role focuses on building and operating low-latency, high-performance KDB+ platforms that support mission-critical trading, analytics, and monitoring applications.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop and maintain large-scale KDB+/q systems for Real-Time and historical market data
- Build and operate tickerplants (TP), Real-Time processes (RTP), and HDBs, including system recovery and log replay
- Implement performant time-series data models, schemas, and APIs
- Optimise q code for latency, throughput, and memory efficiency
- Develop Real-Time and batch pipelines for:
- Tick data ingestion
- Normalisation
- Enrichment
- Collaborate closely with quants and stakeholders to productionise analytics and trading signals
- Provide support and troubleshooting for production KDB systems on Linux, including participation in on-call rotations
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Requirements
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- Extensive hands-on experience with KDB+/q in a production environment
- Proven experience designing or operating Real-Time tick data systems
- Strong knowledge of:
- Tickerplant architectures and recovery models
- Time-series joins (e.g., as-of joins)
- Attributes, iterators/adverbs, and performance internals
- Experience building low-latency systems where performance matters
- Strong Linux/Unix skills, including debugging running processes
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About Korn Ferry
Korn Ferry helps organisations unlock the full potential of their people, teams, and structures. Our expertise covers: ✔️ organizational design (optimal roles, structures, and responsibilities) ✔️ talent acquisition (hiring the right people) ✔️ compensation and rewards strategies ✔️ career development and talent progression
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