KDB Specialist
12 Month contract (ideally starting in December)
London (Hybrid) - 1-2 days per week on site
£#removed# per day (Inside IR35)
My client in the banking industry are 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.
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 DevOps practices
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KDB Specalist employer: Advanced Resource Managers Ltd
At Advanced Resource Managers Ltd, we pride ourselves on being an excellent employer, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters collaboration and innovation. Our Suffolk location provides a unique opportunity to engage in significant infrastructure projects while benefiting from professional growth through continuous training and development. We value our employees by providing competitive benefits and a supportive environment that encourages leadership and impactful contributions to major initiatives.
Contact Details:
Advanced Resource Managers Ltd Recruitment Team
