Job Title :: Senior Data Engineer – Tick Data

Location: Mumbai

Experience: 8+ Years

Function: Innovation

Job Overview :

We are looking for an experienced Senior Data Engineer with strong expertise in KDB+/q and financial market tick data to design, develop and manage high-performance data engineering solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

- Design and maintain real-time and batch data ingestion pipelines for financial market tick data.
- Work with KDB+/q, ClickHouse and other time-series databases.
- Handle trades, quotes, order book (L2) and historical market data.
- Implement data quality checks to identify missing, duplicate, incorrect and inconsistent market data.
- Develop time-series analytics, including OHLC, VWAP, spreads, volatility and liquidity metrics.
- Optimise database performance, query execution and high-volume data processing.
- Work with streaming technologies such as Kafka and Solace.
- Collaborate with trading, quantitative research and risk teams.
- Monitor production systems, troubleshoot data issues and ensure smooth pipeline operations.

Required Skills & Experience:





- 8+ years of experience in Data Engineering, preferably within financial markets or capital markets.
- Strong hands-on experience in KDB+/q.
- Experience with KDB+ architecture, including Tickerplant, RDB, HDB and Gateway.
- Hands-on experience with ClickHouse or similar time-series databases.
- Robust understanding of real-time and historical market data ingestion.
- Knowledge of market data feeds and protocols such as FIX, ITCH, OUCH and PCAP.
- Strong programming skills in Python and SQL.
- Experience with Kafka, Solace or similar messaging technologies.
- Good understanding of Linux, Shell Scripting, Git and CI/CD.
- Knowledge of capital markets, trading workflows and exchange operations.

Good to Have:

- Experience with KX Dashboards, Grafana, Tableau or Power BI.
- Exposure to AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker or Kubernetes.
- KX/KDB+ certifications.

Interested candidates can share their updated CV at [email protected] or connect via LinkedIn.

📌 Senior Data Engineer (Mumbai)
🏢 eAspire Technolabs
📍 Mumbai