Sr Lead Software Engineer - KDB / Q

TN United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

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17.05.2025

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01.07.2025

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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 will be 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. You will be 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

• Execute creative software solutions, design, develop, and troubleshoot technically with the ability to think beyond routine approaches to build solutions or resolve technical problems.
• Develop secure, high-quality production code, and review and debug code written by others.
• Identify opportunities to automate remediation of recurring issues to improve operational stability.
• Lead communities of practice across Software Engineering to promote awareness and use of new technologies.
• Contribute to a team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.
• Develop core systems and frameworks based on KDB.
• Lead team members through project management, improve team processes via SDLC, testing, and continuous coding standards improvement.
• Develop scalable real-time processing solutions using agile methodologies.
• Partner with stakeholders to capture requirements and deliver solutions.
• Collaborate with application support teams to maintain and support the platform.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts with advanced practical experience.
• Hands-on experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods.
• Comprehensive understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Advanced knowledge of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, application resiliency, and security.
• Experience in requirements capture, task decomposition, estimation, delivery planning, testing, and UAT as a development lead.
• Deep expertise in KDB technology and Q language, with at least 7 years of professional experience in KDB and 2+ years in a leadership role.
• Understanding of KDB+tick design, data organization, and performance implications.
• Practical experience with large datasets, query optimization, load balancing, and building resilient high-availability KDB applications.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with market data venues and vendor data platforms.
• Experience with AWS.
• Experience with Terraform and Kubernetes in managing production environments in the cloud.
• Knowledge of other programming languages such as Python, C, C++, or Java.