Senior Lead Software Engineer - KDB Developer

ZipRecruiter; England; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global financial services firm in the UK is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to enhance their trading analytics platform. The role involves leading teams and integrating KDB technology with AWS for superior data management. Candidates should have expertise in electronic trading analytics and substantial leadership experience in KDB development.

Qualifications

• Thorough understanding of electronic trading analytics.
• Experience in leading teams of KDB developers.
• Hands-on experience with KDB and real-time data processing.

Responsibilities

• Drive delivery of initiatives balancing demands and engagements.
• Lead a global team from project inception to execution.
• Build analytics-centric APIs with a focus on performance.

Skills

KDB expertise

Understanding of timeseries data

Leadership skills

Experience with cloud integration technologies

Tools

KDB Insights Microservices

PyKX

AWS services

Job description

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 Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Corporate and Investment Bank Markets technology, you have an exciting and rewarding opportunity to elevate the Fixed Income, Currencies, and Commodities (FICC) electronic trading analytics platform by integrating vast amounts of electronic trading data, KDB+ technology, and AWS products. You will collaborate with business stakeholders, including traders and quantitative analysts, to achieve measurable and quantifiable results. Your role will involve providing both technical and organizational leadership for all strategic business initiatives undertaken by the FICC KDB development team.

Responsibilities

• Drive delivery of FICC KDB business-focused initiatives, efficiently balancing immediate demands and strategic engagements.
• Lead a high-performing global team of KDB software engineers, from project inception and prioritization to design and execution.
• Make KDB data easily accessible to cloud apps for research and AI purposes.
• With relentless focus on resiliency and performance, buildout analytics-centric APIs used by CIB clients and trading systems.
• Work closely with the rest of FICC KDB development leads that provide data onboarding, platform core engineering and SRE services on-prem and in AWS.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Thorough understanding of the ecosystem of timeseries data required for building electronic trading analytics and signals.
• Expert in building large-scale KDB platforms processing bullions of realtime messages, preferably in FX and Credit markets.
• Q guru – this is undoubtedly a hands-on role.
• Experience in leading global business-aligned teams of KDB developers.
• Fundamental knowledge of electronic trading markets, from market data to order placement.

Qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Proficiency in KDB Insights Microservices.
• Working knowledge of PyKX and Python.
• Experience with integrating KDB data with AWS SageMaker, Bedrock and LLM suites.
• Knowledge of AWS compute services and storage tiers.

About Us

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on and at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including, but not limited to, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

About The Team

J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.