KDB platform Support Engineer

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Accenture Flex offers you the flexibility of local fixed‑duration project‑based work powered by Accenture, a leading global professional services company. Accenture is consistently recognized on FORTUNE's 100 Best Companies to Work For and Diversity Inc's Top 50 Companies For Diversity lists.

As an Accenture Flex employee, you will apply your skills and experience to help drive business transformation for leading organizations and communities. In addition to delivering innovative solutions for Accenture's clients, you will work with a highly skilled, diverse network of people across Accenture businesses who are using the latest emerging technologies to address today's biggest business challenges.

You will receive competitive rewards and access to benefits programs and world‑class learning resources. Accenture Flex employees work in their local metro area onsite at the project, significantly reducing and/or eliminating the demands to travel.

• An experienced KDB+ Support Engineer is required to join MAPS Electronic Trading Data Services team in New York.
• This role supports a number of KDB+ Applications, built on client's largest KDB+ implementation, servicing the Global Markets business across multiple asset classes.
• The person hired for this role must have at least 3 years development or support experience on real‑time KDB+ applications.
• They should be sufficiently comfortable working in a Unix environment.
• As this is a Production Support role, the individual should be comfortable managing Technology Incidents, and owning follow up actions with development teams through to closure/risk mitigation.
• The Production Support team works very closely with both development teams, quant solutions groups and business stakeholders.
• It is vital that the person fulfilling this role is able to operate and adjust their approach to collaborate with people from any of these groups.
• Alongside KDB+ it is important for the global team based out of New York, Singapore, GIFT City (India) and London, to work to deliver continuous - follow‑the‑sun support, as our applications operate 24x6.
• Self‑starter who is able to hit the ground running.
• This role has an element of weekend support, on a rotation basis.

* This role requires working onsite with the client 3 days per week in Pennington, NJ*

• Minimum 5 years of work experience.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in developing and supporting KDB+ applications.
• Experience with Q programming language.
• Familiarity with real‑time KDB+ applications processing terabytes of data on a daily basis.
• Excellent spoken and written communication to support users and collaborate with business and technology stakeholders.
• Familiarity with ITIL approach to Incident, Problem, & Change Management.
• Associate's Degree.

Competitive hourly rate ranging from $44 to $54 per hour, depending on location, role, skill set, and level of experience.

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