Senior KDB Developer - Global eTrading
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Programmers and software development professionals
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£54,700
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Description
Job Description
Location: London, Hybrid
Role Type: 12 Month Contract
Rate: £700 - £1000 per day
This is a client facing role working in a specialised team responsible for building and enhancing a high‑performance eTrading MI and Analytics platform. The platform captures, stores, and analyses extremely large volumes of real‑time and historical data over 3TB / 5 billion records daily from multiple electronic trading venues, internal pricing streams, and execution systems.
The team provides the golden source of MI, analytics, and quantitative research support for global stakeholders across risk, quant, trading, and sales. The platform also underpins regulatory reporting, large‑scale data processing pipelines, and backtesting workflows.
This is a high performance, globally distributed environment, running hundreds of concurrent production services with multiple daily releases.
Job Requirements
Key Responsibilities
Location: London, Hybrid
Role Type: 12 Month Contract
Rate: £700 - £1000 per day
This is a client facing role working in a specialised team responsible for building and enhancing a high‑performance eTrading MI and Analytics platform. The platform captures, stores, and analyses extremely large volumes of real‑time and historical data over 3TB / 5 billion records daily from multiple electronic trading venues, internal pricing streams, and execution systems.
The team provides the golden source of MI, analytics, and quantitative research support for global stakeholders across risk, quant, trading, and sales. The platform also underpins regulatory reporting, large‑scale data processing pipelines, and backtesting workflows.
This is a high performance, globally distributed environment, running hundreds of concurrent production services with multiple daily releases.
Job Requirements
Key Responsibilities
- Develop core components of the Global eTrading MI & Analytics platform
- Partner with quantitative teams and electronic trading technologists to deliver fit‑for‑purpose solutions
- Strong expertise in q and experience building performant kdb+ solutions
- Deep understanding of kdb+ tick architecture, real‑time capture, and historical data access patterns
- Experience with Test‑Driven Development (TDD) or Behaviour‑Driven Development (BDD), focusing on specification‑based testing
- Ability to process, query, and analyse large‑scale market and trade datasets, including time‑series and tick‑level data
- Good grasp of statistical concepts, market microstructure, and electronic trading data
- Exposure to the full Software Development Lifecycle, including automation, CI/CD, deployment, and support
- Experience with at least one additional programming language (OO or functional) is highly valued
How We Work:
Delta Capita is an equal opportunity employer. We positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of age, colour, disability, national origin, ancestry, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require any reasonable adjustments through your interview process, please use the designated space within the application questionnaire.
This is a contract role located in London. As the selection and interview process is ongoing, please submit your application in English as soon as possible, if your profile is selected, a member of our team will contact you within 4 weeks. For this role, a valid working permit for the UK is mandatory.
Expectations regarding hybrid working: As we are a Service Provider and Consulting firm servicing clients, our policy for physically working from the office (which may be the clients' offices or our own offices depending on the client) aligns to what our clients' policies and expectations are and these vary. Most of our clients now require a minimum of 3 days per week in the office, 2 days from home, and accordingly this is also the minimum expectation that Delta Capita require.
Who We Are:
Delta Capita is an equal opportunity employer. We positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of age, colour, disability, national origin, ancestry, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require any reasonable adjustments through your interview process, please use the designated space within the application questionnaire.
This is a contract role located in London. As the selection and interview process is ongoing, please submit your application in English as soon as possible, if your profile is selected, a member of our team will contact you within 4 weeks. For this role, a valid working permit for the UK is mandatory.
Expectations regarding hybrid working: As we are a Service Provider and Consulting firm servicing clients, our policy for physically working from the office (which may be the clients' offices or our own offices depending on the client) aligns to what our clients' policies and expectations are and these vary. Most of our clients now require a minimum of 3 days per week in the office, 2 days from home, and accordingly this is also the minimum expectation that Delta Capita require.
Who We Are:
Delta Capita Group (a member of the Prytek Group) is a global managed services, consulting, and solutions provider with a unique combination of experience in Financial Services and technology innovation capability. Our mission is to reinvent the financial services value chain providing technology based mutualized services for financial institutions for non-differentiating services.
Our 3 offerings are:
- Managed Services
- Consulting & Solutions
- Technology