What are the responsibilities and job description for the KDB developer position at SANS?
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Title: KDB developer
Hybrid 3 Days a Week Onsite
Local candidates only Tri State: NY/NJ/CT
We are looking for a KDB developer to support & develop multi-terabyte, massively distributed orders and executions platform for equities, rates and fx globally. The system includes a mix of classic KDB technology with new distributed data engineering state of the art systems, e.g. Kafka, Snowflake etc. We are a diverse data expert group specializing in a variety of big data technologies. While KDB is a major part of our offering, we aim to architect best of breed solutions using a best tool for the job approach. The platform serves many businesses and scales to billions of daily orders. The ideal candidate would be capable of navigating KDB and other data processing technologies. The responsibilities include
- Develop current kdb based infrastructure to ensure support for queries from native Q and other languages (including Java,C#, python) and enhance the architecture to support a low latency, fast ingestion, highly available database.
- The goal is to provide easy access to a broad range of trading analytics, pricing and market information for the business units to help them make informed business decisions.
- Develop tools for data acquisition/loading, data quality, and production support covering a broad range of asset classes, data types, and frequencies that meet current and future trading, analytic, and operational needs Develop modularized, micro service based components.
