Senior KDB+ Specialist, Equities Technology, Senior Vice President

Citi

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Jersey City, NJNew York, NY
Salary
$176,720–$265,080 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
81 days ago
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TL;DR · Senior KDB+ Specialist, Equities Technology, Senior Vice President

The Senior KDB+ Specialist - Equities Technology - Senior Vice President joins the Equities Technology team to support the strategic analytics backbone for the Equities Electronic Trading product. This senior-level role involves designing, developing, and optimizing high-performance, low-latency applications and programs for analytics and data subsystems. You will build and maintain business-critical, high-frequency systems to process market data and generate sophisticated analytics from large-scale datasets. Key responsibilities include conducting code reviews, providing technical mentorship, and driving continuous improvement in testing frameworks and deployment processes. The role requires deep expertise in KDB+ and the Q language, along with experience in FIX protocols, Agile methodologies, and CI/CD processes. You will solve complex technical challenges within the domain of automated trading, market making, and trade reconciliation.

What you'll do

  • Design, develop, and optimize high-performance, low-latency applications using KDB+/Q for equities trading analytics.
  • Build and maintain high-frequency systems to process market data and generate analytics from large-scale datasets.
  • Drive technical design discussions and conduct rigorous code reviews to ensure architectural standards and performance.
  • Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other developers on high-performance KDB+ application development.
  • Build common solutions for trading platform monitoring, trade reconciliation, and application recovery.
  • Drive continuous improvement for testing frameworks, development tools, and deployment processes in high-throughput environments.
  • Resolve complex technical challenges through in-depth analysis of business and system processes.

What we're looking for

  • Minimum 8+ years of hands-on experience in software development for high-performance, low-latency systems in a financial domain.
  • Deep expertise in KDB+ (Q language) development, including scaling, load-balancing, resilience, and query optimization for high-frequency datasets.
  • Experience designing and developing analytics platforms for automated trading systems in Equities or similar asset classes.
  • Solid understanding of financial market protocols like FIX and experience handling order and market datasets.
  • Demonstrable experience with testing frameworks, Agile methodologies, and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) processes.
  • Excellent communication skills to present and grasp complex technical and business concepts.
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
  • Master’s degree (preferred).
  • Background in Markets Electronic Trading or Market Making domains (preferred).

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