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# Senior KDB Developer - Global eTrading - Delta Capita Limited

- **Company:** Delta Capita
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £182,000.0 - £260,000.0
- **Contract:** Temporary to permanent
- **Skills:** Behavior-Driven Development, Big Data, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Data Security, Software Engineering, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Data Management, Api Design, Programming Languages
- **Published:** August 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/senior-kdb-developer-global-etrading-delta-capita-limited/57212032

## About the Role

* Strong expertise in q and experience building performant kdb+ solutions

 * Deep understanding of kdb+ tick architecture, real-time capture, and historical data access patterns

 * Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) or Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD), focusing on specification-based testing

 * Ability to process, query, and analyse large-scale market and trade datasets, including time-series and tick-level data

 * Good grasp of statistical concepts, market microstructure, and electronic trading data

 * Exposure to the full Software Development Lifecycle, including automation, CI/CD, deployment, and support

 * Experience with at least one additional programming language (OO or functional) is highly valued

## Description

This is a client facing role working in a specialised team responsible for building and enhancing a high-performance eTrading MI and Analytics platform. The platform captures, stores, and analyses extremely large volumes of real-time and historical data over 3TB / 5 billion records daily from multiple electronic trading venues, internal pricing streams, and execution systems.

The team provides the golden source of MI, analytics, and quantitative research support for global stakeholders across risk, quant, trading, and sales. The platform also underpins regulatory reporting, large-scale data processing pipelines, and backtesting workflows.

This is a high performance, globally distributed environment, running hundreds of concurrent production services with multiple daily releases., * Develop core components of the Global eTrading MI & Analytics platform

 * Partner with quantitative teams and electronic trading technologists to deliver fit-for-purpose solutions

 * Contribute to the design and architecture of tick data frameworks, data access layers, feed handlers, and scalable analytics solutions

 * Implement robust API-based features and contribute to shared libraries and reusable components

 * Drive automation across metrics, builds, testing, and deployment processes

 * Support continuous delivery and high-availability production environments


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