Senior KDB Developer - Global eTrading
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Posted: March 5, 2026
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Quick Summary
The Senior KDB Developer for the London team is responsible for building and enhancing a high-performance eTrading MI and Analytics platform, working closely with global stakeholders across risk, quant, and trading teams. The ideal candidate will be expected to be proficient in multiple programming languages, including R and Python, and have a strong background in data analysis and visualization. The role requires a solid understanding of data engineering principles and experience with cloud-based platforms.
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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.