KDB Specalist

KDB Specalist in LondonApplyLocationLondonSalaryNegotiableContractPermanent

The Opportunity

We're looking for an experienced KDB+/q Specialist to join a high-performing engineering team building and evolving critical platforms that underpin Prime Brokerage, Financing, Intraday Risk, Market Data and time-series analytics. These are business-critical systems that process high-volume, low-latency financial data and are used directly by front office, quantitative and risk teams.

You'll play a key role in designing scalable KDB+ solutions, optimising time-series data platforms, and partnering closely with traders, quants and business stakeholders to deliver robust, high-performance applications.

This is an opportunity to work on technically challenging engineering problems within a complex enterprise environment while influencing architecture and best practices across the KDB+ estate.

What You'll Be Doing

• Design, develop and optimise high-performance KDB+/q applications and data platforms.
• Build scalable RDB/HDB architectures capable of supporting large-scale market data and analytics workloads.
• Partner with trading, quantitative, risk and business teams to understand requirements and deliver innovative technical solutions.
• Improve platform performance, resilience and operational stability.
• Troubleshoot production issues and drive continuous platform improvements.
• Contribute to technical design, engineering standards and mentoring within the team.

What We're Looking For

We're interested in engineers who have deep expertise in KDB+/q and enjoy solving complex engineering problems in high-performance financial systems.

You'll ideally bring:

• Strong commercial experience developing applications using KDB+/q.
• Deep understanding of time-series databases and distributed data architectures.
• Experience designing, implementing and optimising RDB/HDB environments.
• Experience working with Market Data, Risk, Financing, Prime Brokerage or Securities Lending platforms.
• Strong Linux/Unix administration and scripting skills.
• Experience supporting production systems within business-critical environments.

Experience with any of the following would be advantageous:

• Kubernetes
• Kafka
• Terraform
• Ansible
• Cloud platforms and cloud-native engineering
• CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices

Who You Are

Whether you're an experienced Senior Engineer looking for your next challenge or a Lead Engineer wanting to shape the future of a critical KDB+ platform, we'd love to hear from you. Please contact Lewis @ ARM on

Disclaimer

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission.

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