KDB Developer

• This is an opportunity for a driven Software Engineer to take on an exciting new career challenge
• Day-to-day, you'll be engineering and maintaining innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions
• It’s a chance to hone your existing technical skills and advance your career while building a wide network of stakeholders
• We're offering this role at associate level

• Producing complex and critical software rapidly and of high quality which adds value to the business
• Working in permanent teams who are responsible for the full life cycle, from initial development, through enhancement and maintenance to replacement or decommissioning
• Collaborating to optimise our software engineering capability
• Designing, producing, testing and implementing our working software solutions
• Working across the life cycle, from requirements analysis and design, through coding to testing, deployment and operations

• At least five years of experience in the development and maintenance of KDB+/q applications, including both real‑time and historical data processing components
• Ability to write and optimise q scripts and queries for data ingestion, transformation, and analytics, under the guidance of senior developers
• Experience supporting the implementation of KDB architectures such as Tickerplant, RDB, and HDB, with a good understanding of partitioning strategies and sym management
• Perform data validation and quality checks to identify data gaps, inconsistencies, and performance issues
• Collaborate closely with senior developers, production support, and DevOps teams to support deployments, testing, and production issue resolution
• Maintain technical documentation, run books, and operational notes, and actively participate in code reviews and knowledge‑sharing sessions

NatWest Group