Senior Lead Software Engineer KDB+ Q Vice President

JPMorganChase

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London - UK

profile Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed
Posted on: 23-10-2025
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

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We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of whats possible.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bankyouare an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance build and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure stable and scalable way. As a core technical contributor you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firms business objectives.

Working within the Data Analytics team you will be are responsible for applications that store large amounts of cross asset market data using KDB technology for real-time and historical access. This is an exciting time as we migrate to AWS re-architect our applications and build-out greenfield projects.

Job responsibilities

  • Executes creative software solutions design development and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
  • Develops secure high-quality production code and reviews and debugs code written by others
  • Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
  • Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
  • Adds to team culture of diversity equity inclusion and respect
  • Develop core systems and frameworks based on KDB.
  • Lead team members via book of work management. Improve team through SDLC testing and continuous improvement of coding standards.
  • Develop scalable real-time processing solutions using agile methodology.
  • Partner with stakeholders to capture requirements and deliver solutions.
  • Partner with the application support teams to maintain and support the platform.

Required qualifications capabilities and skills

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and advanced applied experience
  • Hands-on practical experience delivering system design application development testing and operational stability
  • Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
  • Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
  • Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD Application Resiliency and Security
  • Development lead experience: requirements capture task decomposition time and effort estimation delivery planning testing user acceptance testing.
  • Deep understanding of KDB technology and Q language. At least 7 years of professional experience using KDB. With at least an additional 2 years as a Lead.
  • Deep understanding of KDBtick design and data organization performance implications of different approaches.
  • Practical experience developing/running large datasets and optimizing query performance.
  • Practical experience scaling and load-balancing of KDB applications.
  • Practical experience building resilient and high-availability KDB applications.
Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills
  • Experience with market data venue and vendor data platforms.
  • AWS Experience.
  • Experience in Terraform and Kubernetes from managing a Production Plant in Public Cloud.
  • Experience other languages e.g. Python/C/C/Java.



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DescriptionWe have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of whats possible.As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bankyouare an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance build and deliver trust...
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Key Skills

  • Business Development
  • Risk Management
  • Financial Services
  • Management Experience
  • Profit & Loss
  • Banking
  • Regulatory Reporting
  • Analysis Skills
  • Relationship Management
  • Financial Analysis
  • Leadership Experience
  • negotiation

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JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans ov ... View more

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