KDB+ Senior Lead Software Engineer - Vice President

Testing Site - JPMC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank is seeking a Lead Software Engineer who will be a core technical contributor across multiple areas, collaborating with quant developers to implement models, integrate cloud solutions, and deliver data-driven solutions. You will work in the Data Analytics team for KDB-based systems migrating to AWS.

The role focuses on secure, scalable software products, leading development teams, and driving modernization using CI/CD practices.

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of KDB and Q language with 7+ years experience, plus 2+ years in a Lead role.

Responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine to build solutions.
• Develops secure high-quality production code and reviews/debugs code written by others.
• Identifies opportunities to automate remediation of recurring issues to improve stability.
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness of new technologies.
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.
• Core development and delivery of KDB based systems, including framework development.
• Lead team members via book of work management; improve team through SDLC and coding standards.
• Develop scalable real-time processing solutions using agile methodology.
• Partner with stakeholders to capture requirements and deliver solutions.
• Partner with application support teams to maintain and support the platform.

Skills

KDB

Q language

Lead experience

CI/CD

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Python

C/C++/Java

Tools

KDB

Q language

Terraform

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

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 Bankyouare 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. Collaborate with quant developers to implement and enrich models, integrate cloud solutions, and engage with stakeholders to deliver data-driven solutions.

Working within the Data Analytics team you will be are 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 and re-architect our applications.

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
• Core development and delivery of KDB based systems, including framework development.
• 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 in Terraform and Kubernetes from managing a Production Plant in Public Cloud.
• AWS Experience.
• Experience other languages e.g. Python/C/C++/Java.
• Experience with market data venue and vendor data platforms.