Senior Architect - Trade Surveillance platform - Q/KDB
Luxoft is seeking a Senior Architect to lead the modernization of a trade surveillance platform. The role involves transitioning a legacy Q/KDB stack to a cloud-native Python/PySpark architecture. You will define technical strategy, design surveillance scenarios, and integrate GenAI for investigation tooling. This position requires significant experience in high-scale financial data platforms and regulatory compliance.
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Experience
12+ years
Function
Engineering
Work mode
Onsite, India
Company
Tier 2
What you will work on
Luxoft is seeking a Senior Architect to lead the modernization of a trade surveillance platform. The role involves transitioning a legacy Q/KDB stack to a cloud-native Python/PySpark architecture. You will define technical strategy, design surveillance scenarios, and integrate GenAI for investigation tooling. This position requires significant experience in high-scale financial data platforms and regulatory compliance.
TAL's take
High-level architecture role in a specialized fintech domain with clear modernization scope, though the company tier is mid-range.
The JD provides an extremely clear roadmap, specific legacy-to-modern stack requirements, and well-defined responsibilities for the surveillance domain.
Salaries at Luxoft
25.8 LPA average
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Must haves
- 12+ years in large-scale data/surveillance/risk platforms
- Deep expertise in Q/KDB+
- Deep expertise in Python and PySpark
- Strong exposure to cloud platforms
- Strong exposure to streaming architectures (Kafka, Flink, Kinesis)
- Understanding of market microstructure and trade lifecycle
- Knowledge of financial regulations like MiFID II and MAR
Tools and skills
Nice to have: nasdaq smarts, eventus, scila, actimize, b-next, genai, llms, nlp, rag, kubernetes, docker, terraform.
About the company
Luxoft is a well-established global IT services and consulting company with significant engineering operations.