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As one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organisations, HSBC has been connecting customers to opportunities since 1865. With operations in 65 countries and territories, HSBC’s unparalleled international network links developed and emerging markets, and spans the world’s largest and fastest-growing trade corridors. The bank serves more than 40 million customers through its commercial, retail, investment and private banking businesses, which are supported by operational and functional teams around the world.

The team is responsible for designing, developing and operating a fast, real-time, time series big data application. We process in excess of 3TB of financial markets data per day - translating to over 4 billion records per day (orders, trades quotes and prices).

Must have:

• Experienced with Q language and KDB implementation
• Practical knowledge of Linux

NON TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE

• Must be passionate about technology and demonstrate their aptitude for exploring, learning and building technology.
• Be able to work well in a team and be an excellent communicator
• Be interested in solving problems and flexible and adaptable in doing so.
• Be able to work under pressure and to deadlines in a dynamic environment.
• Interest in going through large datasets and information in order to understand issues and develop software solutions

BUSINESS KNOWLEDGE

• Operation of trading desks in a large, multi-site Investment Bank with significant eCommerce offering
• Foreign Exchange in a high volume low latency environment.
• Experience working on enterprise systems but also agile delivery of Quant and Business requirements.
• Spot FX market conventions
• Forward FX market conventions

IDEAL EXPERIENCE (Please list any experience/skills that would be considered desirable although not essential for this role)

• Experience in any functional programming languages
• Experience in any procedural programming languages like C or Python
• Experience of R or MATLAB or any other statistics/numeric programming language

HSBC is committed to building a work culture where everyone is valued, respected and opinions count. They take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, collaboration and supporting people to be at their best in an inclusive and diverse environment.

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