KDB+ Senior Lead Software Engineer - Vice President
On-site · London, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Lead KDB-based systems development within the Data Analytics team at JPMorgan Chase, driving core development of real-time and historical market data solutions using KDB, coordinating with quant developers, migrating to AWS, and focusing on scalable, secure, and operationally stable software. Responsibilities include end-to-end software delivery, SDLC governance, code reviews, troubleshooting, automation/CI-CD, performance optimization, and leadership of teams and communities of practice to adopt new technologies.
Required Qualifications
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and advanced applied experience
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
- Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
- Development lead experience: requirements capture, task decomposition, time and effort estimation, delivery planning, testing, user acceptance testing
- Deep understanding of KDB technology and Q language. At least 7 years of professional experience using KDB. With at least an additional 2 years as a Lead.
- Deep understanding of KDB+tick design and data organization, performance implications of different approaches.
- Practical experience developing/running large datasets and optimizing query performance.
- Practical experience scaling and load-balancing of KDB applications.
- Practical experience building resilient and high-availability KDB applications.
- Experience in Terraform and Kubernetes from managing a Production Plant in Public Cloud.
- AWS Experience.
- Experience other languages e.g. Python/C/C++/Java.
- Experience with market data venue and vendor data platforms.
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