Senior Lead KDB+ Engineer - Real-Time Market Data on AWS

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

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.