Sr Lead Software Engineer - KDB - Vice President

TN United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Sr Lead Software Engineer to join their innovative team in London. This role offers the chance to work with cutting-edge KDB technology and be a pivotal part of exciting projects involving AWS migration and greenfield developments. You'll collaborate with a dynamic group to design and implement scalable solutions while fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion. If you're passionate about pushing the boundaries of technology and want to make a significant impact in the financial sector, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience with KDB and Q language, including 2 years in a lead role.
• Hands-on experience in system design, application development, and operational stability.

Responsibilities

• Develop and troubleshoot high-quality production code with a focus on KDB technology.
• Lead teams in software engineering practices to enhance operational stability.

Skills

KDB technology

Q language

Agile methodologies

Software Development Life Cycle

Automation and continuous delivery

Education

Formal training in software engineering

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

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Posted:

05.05.2025

Expiry Date:

19.06.2025

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 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

1. Execute creative software solutions, design, develop, and troubleshoot technically with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems.
2. Develop secure high-quality production code, review, and debug code written by others.
3. Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems.
4. Lead communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies.
5. Add to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.
6. Develop core systems and frameworks based on KDB.
7. Lead team members via book of work management. Improve team through SDLC, testing, and continuous improvement of coding standards.
8. Develop scalable real-time processing solutions using agile methodology.
9. Partner with stakeholders to capture requirements and deliver solutions.
10. Partner with the application support teams to maintain and support the platform.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

1. Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and advanced applied experience.
2. Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
3. Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods.
4. Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle.
5. Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security.
6. Development lead experience: requirements capture, task decomposition, time and effort estimation, delivery planning, testing, user acceptance testing.
7. Deep understanding of KDB technology and Q language, with at least 7 years of professional experience using KDB and at least 2 years as a Lead.
8. Deep understanding of KDB+tick design and data organization, and the performance implications of different approaches.
9. Practical experience developing/running large datasets and optimizing query performance.
10. Practical experience scaling and load-balancing of KDB applications.
11. Practical experience building resilient and high-availability KDB applications.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

1. Experience with market data venue and vendor data platforms.
2. AWS Experience.
3. Experience with Terraform and Kubernetes managing a Production Plant in Public Cloud.
4. Experience with other languages such as Python, C, C++, or Java.