Job Title: Senior KDB Developer
Location: London
Working Model: Hybrid - flexible working 1-2 days per week in the office
Duration: up to 12 months minimum with conversion to a permanent role possible
Daily Rate Available: up to £1091 Umbrella (further flexibility available for the right candidate)
Inside IR35 via Umbrella: Paystream, Danbro, Focused
Role Description
We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join the FI eTrading team under the role of Senior KDB Developer - FICC IT
Responsibilities
- Work with KDB Framework and liaise with business/traders/quants to develop enhancements and deliver automation.
- Troubleshoot issues faced by quants/traders in a real time trading environment Delivery of new functionality to the KDB data analytics platform, infrastructure, as well as provide support directly to the Fixed Income E-Trading/Sales/Quant desks.
- Contribute and own projects delivering enhancements & stability improvements on behalf of the business teams.
- The build and maintenance of tools, to industrialize support of a cutting edge in-house trading platform.
- Constantly challenging and seeking new areas for automation of manual tasks from the global team.
- Working with the traders and quants- analysing requirements real time from users and technical support colleagues, designing and prototyping solutions, through to testing and deployment.
- Work with systems development teams ensuring best design, deployment, capacity and operability.
- Working with the quants- analysing requirements real time from users and technical support colleagues, designing and prototyping solutions, through to testing and deployment.
- Ownership of problems to complete resolution.
Essential Skillset/Experience
- Strong KDB and Q language skills to handle time series data.
- Experience with end to end KDB solutions (Infrastructure as a Code included)Experience of designing KDB plants.
- Knowledge of Fixed Income business, products and markets .Can operate at a KDB Advisory level.
- You've been involved within complex programmes / multiple projects across multiple work streams / global locations.
- Involved with plans, risk & issues and dependencies. Excellent communication skills & ability to influence project design and scope.
- Excellent senior stakeholder management & change management skills.
- Ownership of problems to complete solution, requirement gathering and cross project engagements.
- Work with systems development teams ensuring best design, deployment, capacity and operability.
- Experience in automating the delivery pipelines and building a self-resilient platform.
If this is the role for you please submit your CV at your earliest convenience.
