Lead design, development, and delivery of risk, pricing, trade capture, and commodities operations software. Collaborate with trading, quant, sales, and middle office to produce secure, high-quality production code, provide technical guidance, and drive product and architecture decisions. Promote cross-team collaboration, firmwide engineering practices, and mentor engineers to deliver scalable solutions.
Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.
As a Senior Lead Software Engineer – Base Metals / Front Office / Athena at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Banking – Base Metals - Commodities Tech team, you will be 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. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.
Job responsibilities
- Works closely with Trading, Quantitative Research, Sales, and Middle Office teams to deliver quality code in a fast-paced environment
- Serve as a Senior SWE within the Base Metals Team, driving the design, development, and delivery of applications for risk management, pricing, trade capture, and physical commodities operations, aligned with global team objectives and priorities.
- Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
- Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
- Promotes and drives cross-functional collaboration with Core Technology teams and Business teams to deliver innovative, scalable solutions
- Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
- Adds to the team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience. In addition, 2+ years of experience leading technologists to manage and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise
- Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Math or equivalent training and relevant experience
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Experience in performant, large-scale system development in an object-oriented or functional language such as Python, Java, etc.
- Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, object-oriented programming, full stack development - end to end, quantitative finance, etc.)
- Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
- Must have a strong understanding of end-to-end business processes
- Enthusiastic to keep learning and growing, in technical aptitude and business understanding
- Previous software engineering team management experience
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Software development experience in commodities, finance, or investment banking preferred, or willingness to rapidly learn the business domain
- Willingness to become proficient and develop in Python if not already a primary language
- Ability to collaborate with other technology teams to deliver end to end solutions to the business in a constantly changing environment
- Excellent interpersonal skills to interact confidently and credibly with business users, to understand and agree business requirements and their prioritization
About UsJ.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
JPMorganChase London, England Office
25 Bank Street, Canary Wharf, London, United Kingdom, E14 5JP
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