• KDB+ / Q specialist / KDB tick architecture
• Software development & Data management
• Development of the Global FX MI and Analytics platform

As one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organisations, HSBC has been connecting customers to opportunities since 1865. With operations in 63 countries and territories, HSBC’s unparalleled international network links developed and emerging markets, and spans the world’s largest and fastest-growing trade corridors. The bank serves more than 40 million customers through its commercial, retail, investment and private banking businesses, which are supported by operational and functional teams around the world.

This role is to join the Global FX eRisk Analytics team. The team is part of the wider eRisk business within Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities, and is responsible for capturing pricing&trading data using KDB+/q. We work closely with the eRisk Macro Quant team to provide insights, facilitate quant research, backtesting and build a range of analytics. We run hundreds of services concurrently in production, capturing and processing billions of records per day, and the team performs multiple software releases per day.

We are currently seeking high calibre KDB developer for our HSBC team. This role is for a person based in HK, working closely with the head of Quant Trading and the Technical Dev lead.

Role Title: Senior KDB Developer

Role Duration: 12 months 

Principal responsibilities:

• Develop key parts of the Global FX MI and Analytics platform
• Work closely with quants and electronic tech team in understanding the business logic and implementing fit-for-purpose solutions
• Contribute to designing and architecting tick, data access, feeds and scalable analytic solutions
• Implement API-based functionality
• Contribute to and expand common components, tools and APIs
• Focus on automation around metrics, builds and testing

Skills Required:

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills with demonstrable knowledge of market data, trade data and basic statistical concepts
• Ability to query, analyse and combine vast amounts of data
• Team player with excellent communication skills
• In depth-Understanding of q language structures and writing performant code
• Familiar with kdb tick architecture
• Ability to adjust to a dynamic environment
• Appreciates differences in style or perspective and uses differences to add value to decisions
• Test-Driven / Behaviour-Driven Development with emphasis on specification-based testing

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