KDB+ Senior Lead Software Engineer - Vice President

J.P. Morgan; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global banking institution is looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join the Data Analytics team in London. You will be responsible for developing applications that handle large datasets using KDB technology and will lead efforts to migrate to AWS. The ideal candidate has extensive experience with KDB and a proven track record in software development and operational stability. This position offers a unique opportunity to influence software solutions and contribute to innovative projects.

Qualifications

• At least 7 years of professional experience using KDB.
• Hands-on experience delivering system design and application development.
• Development lead experience in software projects.

Responsibilities

• Execute creative software solutions and technical troubleshooting.
• Develop high-quality production code and debug code written by others.
• Lead team members and improve coding standards.

Skills

KDB technology

Software engineering concepts

Agile methodologies

Automation and continuous delivery

System design

Operational stability

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Overview

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

Working within the Data Analytics team you will be responsible for applications that store large amounts of cross asset market data using KDB technology for real-time and historical access. This is an exciting time as we migrate to AWS, re-architect our applications and build-out greenfield projects.

Job responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
• Develop core systems and frameworks based on KDB.
• Lead team members via book of work management. Improve team through SDLC, testing and continuous improvement of coding standards.
• Develop scalable real-time processing solutions using agile methodology.
• Partner with stakeholders to capture requirements and deliver solutions.
• Partner with the application support teams to maintain and support the platform.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and advanced applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Development lead experience: requirements capture, task decomposition, time and effort estimation, delivery planning, testing, user acceptance testing.
• Deep understanding of KDB technology and Q language. At least 7 years of professional experience using KDB. With at least an additional 2 years as a Lead.
• Deep understanding of KDB+tick design and data organization, performance implications of different approaches.
• Practical experience developing/running large datasets and optimizing query performance.
• Practical experience scaling and load-balancing of KDB applications.
• Practical experience building resilient and high-availability KDB applications.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with market data venue and vendor data platforms.
• AWS Experience.
• Experience in Terraform and Kubernetes from managing a Production Plant in Public Cloud.
• Experience other languages e.g. Python/C/C++/Java.