KDB Developer

Barclays; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a talented KDB Developer to enhance trading and risk management platforms. In this role, you will design and maintain high-performance systems while collaborating with traders and stakeholders to deliver innovative solutions. Your expertise in Q/KDB and Python will be crucial in building production-quality infrastructure and optimizing analytics frameworks. This position offers a unique opportunity to impact the trading landscape significantly while working in a dynamic and supportive environment. If you are passionate about technology and eager to drive performance improvements, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with Q/KDB and Python for software development.
• Strong analytical skills for handling large tick data.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain high-performance trading platforms and risk systems.
• Collaborate with traders to implement business logic and enhancements.

Skills

Q/KDB

Python

Big Data Analysis

E-Trading Development

Communication Skills

Education

PhD in Quantitative Discipline

Master's Degree in Mathematical Discipline

Tools

Java

Job description

Join us as a KDB developer to create and maintain KDB business facing functionality and infrastructure used for research, analytics in the credit business. The role will require the authoring of APIs and visualization layers for products utilized by the SM&D team and sales and trading teams in our businesses in Markets, as well as contributing to core components used more widely across the firm. This includes writing and maintaining high-quality code, working to enhance the optimization framework and also to maintain all the model and feeds that are required for production trading.
The successful candidate is expected to engage in product development, client support and production of high-quality content for client and trader education.

Accountabilities:

• Provide best in class service to Barclays clients.
• Work with respective trading desk and technology to ensure implementation of business logic is as designed and fit for purpose.
• Build and maintain back testing and simulation framework.
• Design frameworks and functionality for the development and delivery of analytics.
• Implementation, testing, and productionisation.
• Understand existing bank processes.
• Proactively identify problems and issues and resolve them.
• Provide required support in a timely manner and to high quality.
• Participate in team peer reviews of code, modelling and testing.
• Participate in team knowledge sharing and presentations.
  

Essential skills:

• Experience with software development and have worked extensively with Q/KDB & Python.
• Experience with handling and analyzing large amounts of tick data.
• Experience of building production quality infrastructure is essential.
• Experience with big data analysis & visualization.
• Good written and verbal communication skills to a wide audience is essential.
• Experience of e-trading development is desirable.
• PhD or master’s degree in a quantitative, mathematical or scientific discipline is preferred.

Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of Python and Java languages.
• Understanding of any of rates, credit and FX markets.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for this role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is based in our London location.

Purpose of the role:

To design, develop, and evolve trading, risk management and other platforms that facilitate trading and regulatory objectives within the investment banking domain.

Accountabilities:

• Design, development, and maintenance of high-performance trading platforms, risk systems, and applications catering to the needs of traders and market participants.
• Collaborate with traders, strategists, and stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into scalable and efficient technological solutions.
• Implement new features, enhancements, and functionalities on trading platforms to improve performance, reliability, and user experience.
• Stay updated on technological advancements, industry trends, and best practices to drive innovation and continuous improvement in trading platforms.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including business aligned SM&D teams, strats, compliance, and IT to address system issues and implement solutions.

Assistant Vice President Expectations:

• Advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well-developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• If an individual contributor, lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. Identify new directions for assignments and/or projects, identifying a combination of cross-functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; provide advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and develop new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practices (in other areas, teams, companies, etc.) to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.