Senior KDB+/q Engineer for Real-Time Finance Platforms

Matchtech Group; Greater London; Híbrido; GBP 96.000 - 111.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Matchtech Group seeks a Senior KDB+/q Software Engineer to lead development of large-scale KDB+ platforms for prime brokerage risk and margining. You will own real-time data processing, contribute to post-trade workflows, and partner with traders and quants to ensure robust risk calculations.

The role is a 13-week contract in London, hybrid working, paying £545 per day umbrella, inside IR35. Strong domain knowledge in prime brokerage and time-series data is essential.

Formación

• 10+ years' commercial experience developing with KDB+/q.
• Deep understanding of Prime Brokerage post-trade risk and margining.
• Experience with time-series data modelling.
• Experience integrating KDB platforms with Java and/or Python.

Responsabilidades

• Designing, developing and optimising KDB+/q solutions within large-scale production environments.
• Enhancing real-time market and business data ingestion, processing and distribution capabilities.
• Managing and optimising KDB ticker plant, RDB/HDB architectures and historical data platforms.
• Supporting data feed onboarding, integration and data quality controls.
• Troubleshooting complex production issues and providing Level 3 support for critical applications.
• Working closely with business users, traders, quantitative analysts and technology stakeholders.
• Supporting platform reliability, monitoring, root cause analysis and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Integrating KDB platforms with wider technology ecosystems including Java, Python and messaging technologies.

Conocimientos

KDB+/q

Time-series data modelling

Stakeholder management

Production support

Java/Python integration

Kafka

Communication

Educación

Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics

Herramientas

KDB ticker plant

RDB/HDB architectures

Java

Python

Kafka

Descripción del empleo

Matchtech Group seeks a Senior KDB+/q Software Engineer to lead development of large-scale KDB+ platforms for prime brokerage risk and margining. You will own real-time data processing, contribute to post-trade workflows, and partner with traders and quants to ensure robust risk calculations.

The role is a 13-week contract in London, hybrid working, paying £545 per day umbrella, inside IR35. Strong domain knowledge in prime brokerage and time-series data is essential.