Principal KBD Engineer

Whats the Role:

We are seeking an experienced Principal KDB Engineer to provide technical leadership and handson expertise across our KDB estate. KDB is a critical horizontal platform supporting multiple business domains including FX Rates Credit Trading Analytics Risk and Surveillance.

Working closely with Traders Quants Product and Engineering teams this role is responsible for the design delivery and ongoing stability of highperformance KDB solutions operating in a productioncritical environment. As a Principal this role also provides technical authority sets engineering standards mentors engineers and contributes to the longterm evolution of the KDB platform.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support maintain and evolve the global kdb platform delivering highperformance solutions for dataintensive and latencysensitive use cases.
• Design build and optimise kdb/q applications aligned to business risk and regulatory requirements.
• Partner with Traders Quants and senior stakeholders to deliver stable compliant solutions to complex problems.
• Lead investigation and resolution of complex production issues driving improvements in performance resilience and operational maturity.
• Contribute to platform architecture standards and roadmaps including technical debt reduction and strategic uplift initiatives.
• Act as a technical authority setting engineering standards and providing technical oversight and mentoring across the KDB engineering team.

What do I need

• Extensive handson experience developing and supporting kdb solutions in financial markets including frontoffice environments.
• Expertlevel kdb/q programming capability with strong focus on performance tuning and optimisation.
• Delivered KDB solutions across FX Rates Credit or related asset classes with solid understanding of market data and trading workflows.
• Proven ability to work directly with traders and other frontoffice stakeholders to shape and deliver fitforpurpose solutions.
• Comfortable operating in globally distributed productioncritical environments while providing technical leadership to others.
• Broad technical profile with strong analytical and communication skills plus exposure to Java/Python KDB platform upgrades and operational uplift initiatives.
  

Why join us

Were obsessed with becoming our customers #1 banking partner for life and were looking for people who are passionate about helping us achieve that return were committed to making Westpac the best place to work in the country. Here are just a few of the ways were already doing that.

• Special offers on banking products and discounts from top brands including generous employee only mortgage rates!
• Flexible work arrangements to help you achieve a greater work/life balance and a variety of leave options including Culture Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave.
• Tailored learning and development opportunities to help your grow your career within the bank.
• Lots of opportunities to give back to the Community by getting involved in our many volunteering initiatives.

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