Quantitative Trading Engineer - KDB in London

Group Strategic Analytics is part of Group Chief Operation Office (COO) which acts as the bridge between the Bank’s businesses and infrastructure functions to help deliver the efficiency, control, and transformation goals of the Bank. You will join the Quantitative Fixed Income Engineering team which builds applications that deliver quantitatively led pricing and trading solutions for the Rates, Credit and Repo businesses. Our team develops software using modern development practices to create high quality systems that can be iterated on rapidly and safely. Our KDB datastore sits on the critical path for our users for many purposes including: live trading, regulatory driven reporting, structured research and ad-hoc analytics. Performance and uptime are critical, requiring ongoing development, both for new features and maintenance, as the platform expands. You will design, implement and deliver such improvements working closely with quants, engineers and infrastructure teams in an agile environment to realise those goals.

What we’ll offer you:

• Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them.
• Competitive salary and non-contributory pension.
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days.
• Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family.
• A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits.
• The opportunity to support a wide ranging CSR programme + 2 days’ volunteering leave per year.

Your key responsibilities:

• Ongoing development in kdb+/q and associated application infrastructure/tooling.
• Delivering both business driven and engineering driven functional changes to the platform.
• Act as KDB subject matter expert (SME) when working with quant and engineering teams helping them to translate real world problems into solutions that use the platform effectively.
• Take end-to-end responsibility for delivery: working together with other IT groups to define and deliver proper hardware infrastructure, deploy kdb components and work with Support teams to establish monitoring.

Your skills and experience:

• Hands-on expertise engineering solutions using kdb+/Q.
• Understanding of kdb+ tick architecture and table design.
• Ability to write efficient joins and aggregations in Q.
• Shell scripting experience in a Unix/Linux environment.
• A sound grounding in the principles of computer engineering, preferably educated to bachelor’s degree level (preferably with a technical degree) or equivalent qualification/work experience.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with a particular emphasis on clarity of technical communication when conversing with both subject specialists and generalists.

How we’ll support you:

• Training and development to help you excel in your career.
• Flexible working to assist you balance your personal priorities.
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression.
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs.
• We value diversity and as an equal opportunities’ employer, we make reasonable adjustments for those with a disability such as the provision of assistive equipment if required (e.g. screen readers, assistive hearing devices, adapted keyboards).

If you have a disability, health condition, or require any adjustments during the application process, we encourage you to contact our Adjustments Concierge to discuss. We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.