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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.
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- 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.
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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 Lewis.Dunn@ARM.co.uk
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