KDB / Q Lead Software Engineer Vice President

Salary: £62,000 - 102,000 per year

Requirements:

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and advanced applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Development lead experience: requirements capture, task decomposition, time and effort estimation, delivery planning, testing, user acceptance testing
• Deep understanding of KDB technology and Q language
• At least 7 years of professional experience using KDB, with at least an additional 2 years as a Lead
• Deep understanding of KDB+tick design and data organization, including performance implications of different approaches
• Practical experience developing and running large datasets and optimizing query performance
• Practical experience scaling and load-balancing KDB applications
• Practical experience building resilient and high-availability KDB applications
• Experience with market data venue and vendor data platforms
• AWS experience
• Experience in Terraform and Kubernetes

Responsibilities:

• Execute creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Develop secure, high-quality production code, and review and debug code written by others
• Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Lead communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Add to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
• Develop core systems and frameworks based on KDB
• Lead team members via book of work management
• Improve the team through SDLC, testing, and continuous improvement of coding standards
• Develop scalable real-time processing solutions using agile methodology
• Partner with stakeholders to capture requirements and deliver solutions
• Partner with application support teams to maintain and support the platform

Technologies:

• AWS
• CI/CD
• Support
• Security
• Terraform
• Cloud
• Architect
• Kubernetes

More:

We are a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to corporations, governments, wealthy individuals, and institutional investors. Within our Commercial & Investment Bank, we operate across banking, markets, securities services, and payments, supporting clients in more than 100 countries. We offer an agile, secure, stable, and scalable environment where our teams enhance, build, and deliver market-leading technology products. This role sits within our Data Analytics team, working on applications that store large amounts of cross-asset market data using KDB technology for real-time and historical access, and we are migrating to AWS, re-architecting our applications, and building greenfield projects. We value diversity and inclusion, and we are an equal opportunity employer.

last updated 36 week of 2026