KDB Developer

James Joseph Associates
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
4 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

Charing Cross, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Business Analytics Applications
Data analysis
Big Data
Continuous Integration
Data Distribution Service
Linux
Systems Development Life Cycle
KDB+
Kubernetes
Data Analytics
Real Time Data
Data Pipelines

Job description

This position sits within a small, highly capable team focused on building, improving and supporting the firm's data environment. The successful candidate will play a key role in designing and developing scalable data collection and analytics solutions, while helping ensure the platform remains robust, efficient and fit for front-office use.

You will work closely with trading and quantitative teams to deliver high-quality data pipelines, analytics tooling and monitoring solutions. The role covers the full development lifecycle, from early-stage investigation and prototyping through to implementation, testing, release and ongoing support. It offers the chance to work on real-time data challenges in a commercially important environment where performance, reliability and insight generation are central., * Work closely with traders and quants to deliver practical solutions aligned to business needs

  • Build and enhance analytics capabilities that improve visibility and insight for front-office and management teams
  • Develop data ingestion pipelines to capture, organise and store high-volume internal and external data
  • Create and improve frameworks that support real-time dashboards, execution analysis and market microstructure research
  • Design and implement CEP processes to identify anomalies and generate actionable signals
  • Maintain, troubleshoot and strengthen the stability, performance and cost-efficiency of the platform
  • Contribute across the full software delivery lifecycle, including research, testing, deployment and production support

Requirements

  • 5+ years experience in data or analytics development
  • Strong hands-on expertise with KDB+/q
  • Solid background in Linux systems engineering, including lower-level networking and kernel knowledge
  • Experience working with large-scale storage, data distribution and recovery mechanisms
  • Knowledge of AWS services and Kubernetes configuration
  • Experience in big data optimisation, analytics and visualisation
  • Familiarity with continuous integration practices

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