eTrading KDB Developer

OVERVIEW

Quanteam Group is a Consultancy firm specialising in the Financial sector, in London, Paris, Brussels, New York and Singapore.

Our major clients are Corporate & Investment Banks, Asset Managers, Financial Associations, Brokers, Trading Companies, and Insurance Companies.

Since 2007, our 800 consultants provide our clients with expertise and capacity across different areas such as Financial Engineering and Quantitative Research, Regulations and Market Change, IT Transformation and Innovation.

As part of Quanteam Group, Quanteam UK (based in London) counts more than 80 consultants, delivering our expertise to major Financial institutions.

We bring business advice through quantitative, risk, front office and organizational experience as well as IT expertise, across all business lines.

In order to provide the best consultants to our clients, the TAM (Talent Acquisition Management) team of Quanteam UK is actively working in close collaboration with the BM (Business Management) team.

If you are looking for a challenging position with various and diverse responsibilities, working within a very dynamic area, it’s time for you to join Quanteam UK!

CLIENT

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 you’re a senior KDB Developer, we’re keen to hear from you.