About this role
Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements
- 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 with Market Data, Risk, Financing, Prime Brokerage or Securities Lending platforms
- Strong Linux/Unix administration and scripting skills
- Experience supporting production systems in business-critical environments
- Experience with Kubernetes, Kafka, Terraform, Ansible, cloud platforms, cloud-native engineering, CI/CD pipelines or modern DevOps practices is advantageous
Responsibilities
- Design, develop and optimise high-performance KDB+/q applications and data platforms
- Build scalable RDB/HDB architectures for large-scale market data and analytics workloads
- Partner with trading, quantitative, risk and business teams to understand requirements and deliver technical solutions
- Improve platform performance, resilience and operational stability
- Troubleshoot production issues and drive continuous platform improvements
- Contribute to technical design and engineering standards, and mentor team members
Technologies
- ARM
- Ansible
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- DevOps
- Kafka
- Kubernetes
- Linux
- Terraform
- Unix
More
We are recruiting for our banking client, which is seeking a KDB+/q Specialist to join a high-performing engineering team building and evolving critical platforms supporting Prime Brokerage, Financing, Intraday Risk, Market Data and time-series analytics. These business-critical systems process high-volume, low-latency financial data and serve front-office, quantitative and risk teams. The role offers the opportunity to work on complex engineering challenges, influence architecture and best practices, and collaborate with traders, quants and business stakeholders. This is a 12-month contract, ideally starting in December, based in London with one to two days per week on site; the role is inside IR35. The vacancy is advertised by ARM, a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy focused on technical recruitment and resource solutions.
last updated 45 week of 2026