KDB Developer - Java - Linux

London  ‐ Onsite
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Description

KDB Developer/London/12 Months Contract

The client is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small- and middle-market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services.

The company is a long-established participant in the European marketplace, with a presence since 1922. With offices throughout Europe and CEEMEA, the company offers an integrated and comprehensive set of products and services across all businesses, serving the needs of individual, corporate, institutional and government clients, by combining the best of local knowledge and international expertise. My client has a strategic and measured approach to its international development and is strengthening its business and infrastructure to create sustainable, long-term growth.

KDB Developer - Job Description

In an Equities Technology team, the data and analytics team provides Real Time and historical data and reporting to a wide audience globally including senior business management, traders, quants and technical support teams, globally. In a flow business where volumes and throughputs are high, the emphasis on speed and reliability are particularly strong. The successful candidate will be highly technical with a demonstrated expertise in KDB+ and Java with some experience in the process involved in managing data for the purposes of reporting.

Responsibilities

This job presents great opportunities for a strong developer to work on difficult problems and have a direct impact. The job involves working on the transaction data warehousing and market data statistics platforms in the equities technology group built on KDB these form the backbone of the data platform. He or she will be encouraged to offer opinion on decisions around architecture and development of the platform. He or she will communicate with the business, traders and quants to manage their own list of tasks, and should be able to work well in a larger, international team.

  • Full hands on developer job: development, testing, documentation, code review, production, the complete cycle.
  • Participate in support, be on the front line when crises hit and work with the level 1 support team to resolve.
  • Be prepared to communicate transparently with clients in difficult situations.
  • Make architectural and technical decisions on performance and functionalities.
  • Establish dev processes, follow and enforce firm standard processes.

Requirements

Mandatory skills:

  • KDB+
  • Linux
  • Java

Desired skills:

  • C++
  • Python
  • Low latency systems
  • Markets statistics
  • Experience working on Agile projects (SCRUM)
  • Design of scalable, robust systems
  • Transaction Cost Analysis
  • Equities/Futures/Options/Derivatives

If you match these requirements, please apply in the normal way. Elevate will send you an email, please open, click and action that email and your application will be visible to the hiring organisation directly.

Start date
ASAP
Duration
12 months
From
Elevate Direct
Published at
12.06.2017
Project ID:
1359771
Contract type
Freelance
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