About the Role
This client-facing role involves building and enhancing a high-performance eTrading MI and Analytics platform that captures, stores, and analyzes extremely large volumes of real-time and historical data. The platform serves as the golden source of MI, analytics, and quantitative research support for global stakeholders and underpins regulatory reporting, data processing pipelines, and backtesting workflows in a high-performance, globally distributed environment.
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
- Contribute to the design and architecture of tick data frameworks, data access layers, feed handlers, and scalable analytics solutions
- Implement robust API-based features and contribute to shared libraries and reusable components
- Drive automation across metrics, builds, testing, and deployment processes
- Support continuous delivery and high-availability production environments
Requirements
- 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
- A valid working permit for the UK is mandatory
Skills
- q
- kdb+
- Test-Driven Development (TDD)
- Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
- API-based features
- automation
- CI/CD
- deployment
- support
- statistical concepts
- market microstructure
- electronic trading data
- OO programming
- functional programming
Location
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid
- 12 Month Contract
- Full-time
Salary/Compensations
- £700 - £1000 per day
About the Company
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
