Principal Architect
About KX
Our mission is to accelerate data and AI-driven innovation with high-performance analytics solutions, enabling our customers to transform into AI-first enterprises. KX is trusted by the world's top investment banks and hedge funds, aerospace and defence, life and health sciences, semiconductor, telecommunications, and advanced manufacturing companies.
Time series and vector data analytics and management are at the heart of our products, independently benchmarked as the fastest on the market. They help our customers process data at unmatched speed and scale and empower LOB leaders, developers, data scientists, and data engineers to build high-performance data-driven applications and turbocharge their favourite analytics tools in the cloud, on-premise, or at the edge.
KX technology enables the discovery of richer, actionable insights for faster, better-informed decision-making, driving competitive advantage and transformative growth for our customers. KX operates across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.
Role Overview
We are hiring a Principal Solution Architect to lead the KX Services technical delivery function, including architects, developers and DevOps. As a member of the KX Services Leadership Team, you will be accountable for the function's people, technical direction, engineering practices and contribution to customer outcomes.
You will bring deep credibility in kdb+ and use that foundation to lead its evolution into KDB-X across KX Services. Working directly with customer executives and senior technical stakeholders, you will ensure our technical delivery supports successful adoption, measurable customer outcomes and lasting customer trust.
A major part of the role is to take the existing KX Services AI delivery strategy from early adoption to a mature, repeatable AI-led development and deployment practice. You will turn successful experiments into standard ways of working, reusable assets and responsible deployment patterns that improve productivity, quality and reuse.
This is a management and leadership role. You will lead through people managers, Team Leads and senior technical professionals while remaining sufficiently hands-on to guide complex engagements, resolve critical issues and set the technical standard for the wider function.
Location & Workplace Type
This position follows a hybrid working model. The primary location will be confirmed.
Preferred Qualifications
Data Driven: We lead with instinct and follow fact.
Naturally Curious: We lean in, listen and learn fast.
All In: We take ownership, take on challenges and give it our all.
Benefits
Our mission is to accelerate data and AI-driven innovation with high-performance analytics solutions, enabling our customers to transform into AI-first enterprises. KX is trusted by the world's top investment banks and hedge funds, aerospace and defence, life and health sciences, semiconductor, telecommunications, and advanced manufacturing companies.
Time series and vector data analytics and management are at the heart of our products, independently benchmarked as the fastest on the market. They help our customers process data at unmatched speed and scale and empower LOB leaders, developers, data scientists, and data engineers to build high-performance data-driven applications and turbocharge their favourite analytics tools in the cloud, on-premise, or at the edge.
KX technology enables the discovery of richer, actionable insights for faster, better-informed decision-making, driving competitive advantage and transformative growth for our customers. KX operates across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.
Role Overview
We are hiring a Principal Solution Architect to lead the KX Services technical delivery function, including architects, developers and DevOps. As a member of the KX Services Leadership Team, you will be accountable for the function's people, technical direction, engineering practices and contribution to customer outcomes.
You will bring deep credibility in kdb+ and use that foundation to lead its evolution into KDB-X across KX Services. Working directly with customer executives and senior technical stakeholders, you will ensure our technical delivery supports successful adoption, measurable customer outcomes and lasting customer trust.
A major part of the role is to take the existing KX Services AI delivery strategy from early adoption to a mature, repeatable AI-led development and deployment practice. You will turn successful experiments into standard ways of working, reusable assets and responsible deployment patterns that improve productivity, quality and reuse.
This is a management and leadership role. You will lead through people managers, Team Leads and senior technical professionals while remaining sufficiently hands-on to guide complex engagements, resolve critical issues and set the technical standard for the wider function.
Location & Workplace Type
This position follows a hybrid working model. The primary location will be confirmed.
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities- Lead, coach and develop the KX Services technical delivery function, including architects, developers and DevOps.
- Set the function's technical direction, engineering standards, reference architectures and reusable delivery patterns.
- Advise customer executives and senior technical stakeholders on architecture, transformation roadmaps and the business implications of technical decisions.
- Partner with Customer Success, account teams and Delivery Managers throughout the customer lifecycle to maintain technical alignment, remove adoption barriers and support intended customer outcomes.
- Deploy appropriate technical leadership to complex engagements and escalations, intervening personally where senior judgement or management authority is required.
- Shape technical scopes, estimates, solution options and Statements of Work, translating architectural choices into customer value, technical risk and delivery assumptions.
- Turn customer and delivery experience into structured product feedback, informing KDB-X priorities, release readiness and future Services offerings.
- Mature the KX Services AI delivery strategy into a repeatable AI-led development and deployment practice that improves productivity, quality and reuse.
- Build organisational capability through coaching, succession planning, communities of practice and collaboration with Product, R&D and Developer Relations.
- Govern technical methodologies and quality standards for specialist services such as architectural reviews, performance assessments and health checks.
Requirements
Required Skills & Experience- A sustained record of leading and developing senior technical professionals, including people managers or Team Leads.
- Deep expertise and established credibility in q/kdb+, with the ability to apply that foundation to KDB-X and the wider KX product stack.
- Strong experience designing and governing complex, data-intensive systems, including architecture, performance, resilience, deployment, integration, security and operability.
- A sustained record of working directly with clients in a professional-services environment and building trusted relationships with senior technical and business stakeholders.
- Experience leading complex customer engagements through solution definition, delivery, adoption and resolution of critical issues.
- The judgement and communication skills to advise customer executives, challenge constructively and translate technical decisions into business implications.
- Experience shaping complex scopes, estimates, technical propositions and Statements of Work.
- A strong record of turning delivery experience into reusable architectures, technical standards and improved ways of working.
- Practical understanding of AI-assisted engineering and agentic systems, including the controls required for responsible customer deployment.
- Experience leading across organisational boundaries and influencing product, engineering, commercial and customer-facing stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with KDB-X or other current KX products; existing KDB-X mastery is beneficial but not a prerequisite.
- Experience with cloud architecture, distributed systems, DevOps, CI/CD and container is deployments.
- Experience working with high-performance time-series, vector real-time analytics solutions.
- Knowledge of financial services, aerospace and defence, life sciences, telecommunications, manufacturing or other data-intensive industries.
Benefits
Why Choose KX?Data Driven: We lead with instinct and follow fact.
Naturally Curious: We lean in, listen and learn fast.
All In: We take ownership, take on challenges and give it our all.
Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- Individually tailored training and skills development
- Private healthcare package and Employee AssistanceProgramme
- Enhanced maternity and paternity package
- Wellness Days and Volunteer Days