Lead Software Engineer
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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank - Athena Trade & Risk Services, you are 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 firm's business objectives.
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 evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
- 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
Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills
Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experienceHands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stabilityExperience of developing in Python or any object oriented languageExperience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languagesStrong analytical development skills, solid understanding of computer science fundamentalsCreative, quick-thinking, pragmatic, with an aptitude for solving problems with technology and an ability to quickly translate requirements into a sound technical design and implementation.Proven organizational skills, decisive priority management, strong teamwork ethic, excellent verbal & written communication skills.Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI / CD, Application Resiliency, and SecurityExperience working in a team with a strong software development process (build, test, deploy etc).In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systemsPreferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills
Experience in real-time, resilient, high performance and / or risk and pricing and / or eTrading areas.