My client is looking for a solid KDB+ developer to lead the KDB+ development activities across Fixed Income Rates and Currencies group in London.

The role will require a strong leader who can work closely with the front office business and lead the strategic direction of the KDB platform.

The team will work on the build out of the current KDB platform to meet new client demands across the Fixed Income Rates and Currencies group and to achieve this you work closely with the Front Office Quant and Trading business.

Work covers KDB architecture including but not limited to:

• low latency tick
• schema
• Q framework
• user focused analytics and visualization
• scripting
• some java components
• design of significantly sized KDB+ systems and Infrastructures
• development on a Unix or Linux environment
• low latency systems development and tick data capture
• core Java 

 Industry: Investment Banking

Working for a Tier One Global Investment Bank to design, implement, test and deploy trading systems for the market making and execution only trading desks.

As part of the development team supporting the Global cash and derivatives rates and credit businesses, you will develop pricing, quoting and algorithmic trading systems that can enhance connectivity to new markets and improve quantitative low latency performance.

Key aspects of the role are:

• Manage relationships with senior Trading/Sales and software vendors
• Tune Linux, reconfigure network routing/firewall setup, adopt new market protocols, and quantitative analysis of latency data
• Configure new ION Trading components and middleware
• Develop Java, KDB/Q, and scripting languages (Shell, Perl, Python)

You must have:

• Experience of development and tuning of high performance real-time electronic trading applications, whether buy- or sell-side, or at an exchange
• Quantitative performance monitoring and testing, including population statistics
• Bonds and swaps pricing and risk management
• TCP/IP networking, including technical certifications such as CCNA, highly desirable
• ION Marketview API and platform configuration experience highly desirable.

Location: New York / New Jersey