IT & Software

Sr Lead Software Engineer - KDB+ / Q

JP Morgan Chase

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank. You will be a core technical contributor in the Data Analytics team, building and refining KDB-based systems for real-time and historical market data. You’ll help migrate to AWS, re-architect applications, and drive greenfield projects with secure, scalable solutions. You will lead communities of practice and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver trusted, market-leading technology that aligns with the firm’s objectives. This role offers the opportunity to shape high-impact data platforms in a large, global institution.

Responsibilities
  • Execute creative software solutions and troubleshoot complex problems beyond routine approaches
  • Develop secure, production-grade code and review others’ code
  • Identify opportunities to automate recurring issues to improve stability
  • Lead communities of practice to promote new technologies
  • Foster team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
  • Develop core systems and frameworks based on KDB
  • Lead team members via book of work management and drive SDLC improvements
  • Develop scalable real-time processing solutions using agile methodology
  • Partner with stakeholders to capture requirements and deliver solutions
  • Collaborate with application support teams to maintain and support the platform
Key requirements
  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts
  • Hands-on experience in system design, development, testing, and operational stability
  • Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
  • Strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle and agile methodologies (CI/CD, application resiliency, security)
  • Development lead experience: requirements capture, task decomposition, estimation, delivery planning, testing, UAT
  • Deep understanding of KDB and Q language; at least 7 years professional KDB experience; plus 2+ years in a lead role
  • Experience with KDB+tick design and data organization; performance implications of approaches
  • Experience handling large datasets, optimizing query performance, scaling and load-balancing KDB apps, and building resilient/HA KDB systems
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Stakeholder partnership
  • Mentorship and leadership
  • KDB
  • Q language
  • AWS

Reference: WJ-747_30161790

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