Job Summary:
HCL Global Systems Inc is seeking a highly experienced Software Engineer to lead the design and development of next-generation trading systems. This hands-on technical leadership role focuses on building scalable, resilient, and high-performance trading infrastructure while collaborating across teams and mentoring engineers.
Responsibilities:
• Design, develop, and optimize KDB+ databases and q analytics for high-volume trading and market data.
• Develop Python-based AI and quantitative models for research, prediction, classification, and signal generation.
• Apply machine learning techniques to time-series data (feature engineering, model training, evaluation).
• Build research and backtesting frameworks integrating AI models with historical data.
• Translate quantitative and machine learning research into robust, production-ready systems.
• Integrate AI models into real-time and batch pipelines.
• Optimize analytics and model evaluation for performance, stability, and scalability.
• Collaborate with quants, product owners, and engineering teams on model deployment and monitoring.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent.
• 10+ years of professional experience in quantitative finance or trading systems.
• Advanced proficiency in KDB+/q, including time-series data modeling, high-performance querying and joins, and real-time and historical analytics.
• Strong Python skills for quantitative analysis, AI/ML model development, and integration with KDB+ and downstream systems.
• Experience working with large-scale, high-frequency, or noisy datasets.
• Strong software engineering practices including Git, testing, and modular design.
• Experience working with AI developer assistance tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot).
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub, Maven, Jenkins, Artifactory, and uDeploy.
• Hands-on experience with AWS or other cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with object-oriented programming languages such as Java.
• Experience with Linux, shell scripting, and production support.
• Strong quantitative mindset with practical AI application skills.
• Ability to bridge research, machine learning, and production systems.
• Comfort working on front-office or research-critical infrastructure.
• Clear communication skills with quants, traders, and engineers.
• Willingness to support production systems and participate in on-call rotations, including occasional weekend support.
Company:
HCL Global Systems is a staffing and recruiting company providing consulting and business solutions. Founded in 2005, the company is headquartered in Farmington Hills, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.