Accenture

Project Role : Custom Software Engineer

Project Role Description : Design, build and configure applications to meet business process and application requirements.

Must have skills : Oracle Procedural Language Extensions to SQL (PLSQL)

Good to have skills : NA

Minimum 5 year(s) of experience is required

Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education

Summary:

A KDB+ / q-Language Developer is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance time-series databases and real-time data processing systems. The role involves building q-based applications, optimizing queries, and ensuring low-latency ingestion of large financial datasets. The developer supports trading, analytics, and reporting teams by creating efficient data pipelines, real-time feeds, and analytical solutions. Key responsibilities include system performance tuning, production support, and integration with upstream/downstream platforms. The role requires strong analytical skills, proficiency in q-language, deep understanding of KDB+ architecture, and experience working in fast-paced financial environments.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Expected to be an SME.
• Design, develop, and maintain KDB+ databases

Create schema, tables, partitions, and data pipelines.

Implement reliable ingestion processes for real-time and historical data.

• Develop q-language scripts and applications

Build q functions, queries, APIs, and utilities for performance-sensitive use cases.

Optimize scripts for speed, memory usage, and scalability.

• Build analytics and reporting solutions

Create time-series analytics, dashboards, and query interfaces for end-users.

Support quants, traders, and data analysts with custom analytics.

• Troubleshoot slow queries, memory issues, and process bottlenecks.

Optimize HDB (Historical Database) and RDB (Real-time Database) performance.

• Documentation & collaboration

Maintain documentation for scripts, design decisions, and architecture.

Collaborate with quants, traders, business users, and DevOps teams.

• Data quality, validation, and monitoring

Ensure accuracy, consistency, and completeness of large financial datasets.

Automate data checks and monitoring alerts.

• Engage with multiple teams and contribute on key decisions.
• Provide solutions to problems for their immediate team and across multiple teams.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing sessions to enhance team capabilities.
• Mentor junior team members to foster their professional growth.

Professional & Technical Skills:

• Strong expertise in KDB+ database architecture (RDB, HDB, IDB).
• Advanced proficiency in q-language (vector programming, functional programming).
• Hands on Unix
• Strong experience with time-series data, tick data, and real-time processing.
• Hands-on with tick architecture, tickerplant, and real-time subscription systems.
• Understanding of memory-mapped files, partitions, and table schemas.
• Uses Q language which is an expressive & functional language.
• Relational dB + Column-Oriented Data Storage which is Ideal for time-series operations such as

computing rolling averages, joins, and group-by on billions of records.

• In-Memory and On-Disk

kdb+tick: A real-time, in-memory streaming database that captures and analyzes live data.

Historical database (HDB): Persistent storage for historical data, usually on disk.

You can combine & query both live and historical via a single interface (called kdb+ TP gateway

process )

Additional Information:

• Knowledge of capital markets, trading, derivatives, fixed income, FX.
• Exposure to cloud environments (AWS/Azure/GCP) with KDB integrations.
• Experience with data visualization tools (QStudio, KX Dashboards, Grafana)
• Minimum 15 years of education is required

15 years full time education

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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