Senior KDB+ Developer
Listed on 2026-07-20
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Software Development
DevOps, SQL Developer, Backend Developer
Overview
Job order - J - Permanent Full Time
Title Senior KDB+ Developer
Category Software Development/ Engineering
City Cary, North Carolina, United States
Position DescriptionSenior KDB+ Developer to join an established team supporting a core system for our large financial client. Hands-on Senior Developer with domain experience in Electronic Trading, Fixed Income, Mortgage, Securities or Loans and development experience in KDB, REST API, Spring and Oracle. This position is located on-site in Cary, NC.
Your future duties and responsibilities- Develop and maintain KDB+ applications supporting tick architecture pipelines
- Support market data ingestion, normalization and downstream redistribution
- Provide L3 production support, including incident resolution and root cause analysis
- Contribute to BAU engineering, QA and Dev Ops workflows (CI/CD, deployment, monitoring)
- Collaborate with global teams across EMEA, US and APAC to deliver platform enhancements
- Develop key components of the FX MI and Analytics platform
- Ensure resilience, scalability and performance optimization of market data platforms
- Participate in architecture discussions and continuous platform improvement initiatives
- Must have a minimum of 5+ years of IT experience
- Minimum 1+ year hands on KDB+ development experience
- KX Academy Level 3 certification (or equivalent)
- Familiarity with KDB+ tick architecture and real time data processing
- Experience in market data environments (ingestion, enrichment, distribution)
- Understanding of L3 support models and production environments
- Exposure to Dev Ops practices (automation, release, monitoring)
- Strong collaboration and communication skills in global teams
- Exposure to vendor data sources (e.g. LSEG, Bloomberg, ICE)
- Experience in high volume, low latency data systems
- Multi-disciplinary capability across Dev, QA, and Dev Ops
- Experience working in globally distributed teams
CGI is required by law in some jurisdictions to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. The current range in the U.S. is roughly $89,600.00 to $. CGI typically does not hire individuals at or near the top of the range. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.
- Competitive compensation
- Comprehensive insurance options
- Matching contributions through the 401(k) plan and the share purchase plan
- Paid time off for vacation, holidays, and sick time
- Paid parental leave
- Learning opportunities and tuition assistance
- Wellness and Wellbeing programs
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