At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and optimise high-performance KDB+/q applications for financial systems.
- Company: Join a leading firm in the finance tech space with a focus on innovation.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible working options, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic team environment with potential for career advancement.
- Why this job: Tackle complex engineering challenges and make a real impact in finance technology.
- Qualifications: Expertise in KDB+/q and experience with time-series databases required.
The predicted salary is between 60750 - 74250 £ per year.
The Opportunity We're looking for an experienced KDB+/q Specialist to join a high-performing engineering team building and evolving critical platforms that underpin Prime Brokerage, Financing, Intraday Risk, Market Data and time-series analytics.
These are business-critical systems that process high-volume, low-latency financial data and are used directly by front office, quantitative and risk teams.
You'll play a key role in designing scalable KDB+ solutions, optimising time-series data platforms, and partnering closely with traders, quants and business stakeholders to deliver robust, high-performance applications.
This is an opportunity to work on technically challenging engineering problems within a complex enterprise environment while influencing architecture and best practices across the KDB+ estate.
What You'll Be Doing Design, develop and optimise high-performance KDB+/q applications and data platforms.
Build scalable RDB/HDB architectures capable of supporting large-scale market data and analytics workloads.
Partner with trading, quantitative, risk and business teams to understand requirements and deliver innovative technical solutions.
Improve platform performance, resilience and operational stability.
Troubleshoot production issues and drive continuous platform improvements.
Contribute to technical design, engineering standards and mentoring within the team.
What We're Looking For We're interested in engineers who have deep expertise in KDB+/q and enjoy solving complex engineering problems in high-performance financial systems.
You'll ideally bring: Strong commercial experience developing applications using KDB+/q.
Deep understanding of time-series databases and distributed data architectures.
Experience designing, implementing and optimising RDB/HDB environments.
Experience working with Market Data, Risk, Financing, Prime Brokerage or Securities Lending platforms.
Strong Linux/Unix administration and scripting skills.
Experience supporting production systems within business-critical environments.
Experience with any of the following would be advantageous: Kubernetes Kafka Terraform Ansible Cloud platforms and cloud-native engineering CI/CD pipelines and modern Dev Ops practices Who You Are Whether you're an experienced Senior Engineer looking for your next challenge or a Lead Engineer wanting to shape the future of a critical KDB+ platform, we'd love to hear from you.
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Location London Salary Negotiable Contract Permanent
KDB Specalist in London employer: Advanced Resource Managers (A.R.M.)
As a Data Engineer at our London-based firm, you will thrive in a dynamic and innovative work culture that prioritises collaboration and professional growth. We offer competitive daily rates, hybrid working arrangements, and the opportunity to work on cutting-edge data solutions within the asset management sector, ensuring that your contributions are both meaningful and impactful.
Contact Details:
Advanced Resource Managers (A.R.M.) Recruitment Team
