As a senior leader in Software Engineering, you'll combine your years of proven expertise with a never-ending quest to create innovative technology through solid engineering practices. You’ll lead a highly inspired and inquisitive team of technologists who are already developing and deploying applications to the highest standards. With your deep knowledge of design, analytics, development, coding, testing, and application programming, your team will raise their game even more, meeting your standards, as well as satisfying both business and functional requirements. Your passion and experience in one or more technology domains will help solve complex and mission critical problems, internally and externally. As a constant learner and early adopter, you’re already embracing leading-edge technologies and methodologies; your example encourages others to follow suit.
In addition to creating solutions with your in-house team, you’ll also work alongside our team of technologists from around the world who are just as dedicated as you are. We embrace a culture of experimentation and constantly strive for improvement and learning. You’ll work in a collaborative, trusting, thought-provoking environment—one that encourages diversity of thought and creative solutions that are in the best interests of our customers globally.
This position is for a hands on ED level KDB KDB+/Q developer to join our Data & Analytics team in London. The role requires strong KDB/Q skills and experience developing on the Linux platform. The successful candidate will own and expand strategic market wide Tick data store. He or She will lead team of KDB developers and market data experts, it is expected that this person will be involved in coding/design/reviews etc. He or She will work with local product/desk, QR and tech teams, responsibility also includes working with senior stakeholders from businesses and line of business tech leads.
The candidate will ensure consistent functional and technical design; will deliver clear, concise technical design documentation and code; will be involved in the full project life cycle including requirements analysis, design, development, testing and production rollout of all key initiatives in this space. Successful candidate will work with global KDB dev team coordinating efforts on various aspects of project development, will also get involved in investigation of production issues when needed.
As a Senior Application Development lead, you will demonstrate very strong programming skills in KDB+/Q, with 10+ years of experience in a similar role in any business line (fixed income, equities or any type of derivatives) and developed significant technical and business expertise. You have been exposed to some of the following: real-time market data, pre-trade analytics, post-trade analytics, order management, algorithmic trading, enterprise data warehouse, FIX protocol, web services. Any cloud experience in AWS is a plus.
Required skills
- 10+ years of KDB+/Q experience, with relevant experience in financial services
- Proficient in Unix/Linux and OS level tools
- Knowledge of electronic trading across equities and F&O
- Experience working with time-series databases, including development of scalable real-time data processing systems
- Experience with market data platforms
- Experience with TCA analysis
- Agile development experience
- Team player with excellent communication skills
- Comfortable partnering with business stakeholders and have the ability to quickly understand requirements
The hiring manager for this job opening would welcome a conversation about flexible working. This could range from ad hoc flexibility in a full time position, to a more formal Flexible Work Arrangement.
