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# KDB+/q Specialist

- **Company:** Advanced Resource Managers
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Ansible, Scripting, KDB+, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Apache Kafka, Terraform
- **Published:** August 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.arm.co.uk/job-application/?job_id=8856541_1785766642

## About the Role

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

## Description

We're looking for 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.


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