KDB Developer

Location: Hybrid with at least 2-3 days / week in London

Contract duration : 12 months

Responsibilities

• Work with KDB Framework and liaise with business/traders/quants to develop enhancements and deliver automation Troubleshoot issues faced by quants/traders in a real time trading environment Delivery of new functionality to the KDB data analytics platform, infrastructure, as well as provide support directly to the Fixed Income E-Trading/Sales/Quant desks.
• Contribute and own projects delivering enhancements & stability improvements on behalf of the business teams.
• The build and maintenance of tools, to industrialize support of a cutting-edge in-house trading platform.
• Constantly challenging and seeking new areas for automation of manual tasks from the global team.
• Working with the traders and quants- analyzing requirements real time from users and technical support colleagues, designing and prototyping solutions, through to testing and deployment.
• Work with systems development teams ensuring best design, deployment, capacity and operability.
• Working with the quants- analyzing requirements real time from users and technical support colleagues, designing and prototyping solutions, through to testing and deployment.
• Ownership of problems to complete resolution

Essential Skillset/Experience

• Strong KDB and Q language skills to handle time series data Experience with end-to-end KDB solutions (Infrastructure as a Code included) Experience of designing KDB plants.
• Knowledge of Fixed Income business, products and markets.
• Can operate at a KDB Advisory level.
• You've been involved within complex programmes / multiple projects across multiple work streams / global locations. 
• Involved with plans, risk & issues and dependencies.
• Excellent communication skills & ability to influence project design and scope.
• Excellent senior stakeholder management & change management skills.
• Ownership of problems to complete solution, requirement gathering and cross project engagements.
• Work with systems development teams ensuring best design, deployment, capacity and operability.
• Experience in automating the delivery pipelines and building a self-resilient platform If you're a senior KDB Developer, we're keen to hear from you –