Lead CI Engineer - Continuous Integration

J.P. MORGAN; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading financial institution as a Vice President at J.P. Morgan, focusing on enhancing the digital banking experience within the International Consumer Bank. Your role involves building robust CI processes, managing tool chains, and supporting mobile application development, all in a collaborative team environment.

Qualifications

• Proficient advanced experience in CI and tool chains.
• Hands-on with Bash, Python, or equivalent scripting.
• Excellent communication skills in English.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable architectural solutions avoiding single points of failure.
• Maintain Continuous Integration framework using AWS, Docker, and K8s.
• Lead migration of SCM tooling to GitHub and Actions.

Skills

Continuous Integration

Automation

Scripting Languages

AWS

CI Systems

Communication

Education

Formal training or certification in CI concepts

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub

Cloudbees

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

At JP Morgan Chase, we understand that customers seek exceptional value and a seamless experience from a trusted financial institution. That's why we launched Chase UK to transform digital banking with intuitive and enjoyable customer journeys. With a strong foundation of trust established by millions of customers in the US, we have been rapidly expanding our presence in the UK and soon across Europe. We have been building the bank of the future from the ground up, offering you the chance to join us and make a significant impact.

As a Vice President at JPMorgan Chase within the International Consumer Bank, you will play a crucial role in this initiative, dedicated to delivering an outstanding banking experience to our customers. You will work in a collaborative environment as part of a diverse, inclusive, and geographically distributed team. We are seeking individuals with a curious mindset and a keen interest in new technology. Our engineers are naturally solution-oriented and possess an interest in the financial sector and focus on addressing our customer needs. We work in teams focused on building the iOS and Android Mobile applications, focusing on the design, architecture, and maintenance of the build and infrastructure solutions along with the entire SDLC stages, liaising with cross-functional teams on driving the future tool landscapes used by the development team.

Job responsibilities

1. Build solutions that avoid single points of failure, using scalable architectural patterns.
2. Facilitate cross-functional team collaboration to implement reliable build and infrastructure tools.
3. Structure software so that it is easy to understand, test, and evolve.
4. Proactively identify potential issues with build infrastructure, fix issues, and ensure the toolchain is resilient.
5. Identify and implement development requirements in CI tooling using Jenkins declarative pipelines.
6. Identify Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), generate metrics to assess system efficiency, reliability, and ease of operation, and drive improvements.
7. Maintain the Continuous Integration (CI) framework (Cloudbees-based) used by all developers in the Front End development team and infrastructure cluster using AWS instances, Docker, and K8s framework.
8. Improve the resiliency and developer experience of the Release Management frameworks used by the Front End Team.
9. Conduct thorough testing to ensure robustness and reliability of build infrastructure tools.
10. Lead the migration of SCM/CI tooling to GitHub and Actions.
11. Support the products you've built throughout their lifecycle, including in production and during incident management.

Required qualifications, capabilities & skills

1. Formal training or certification in continuous integration concepts and proficient advanced experience.
2. Experience managing continuous integration and automation tool chains.
3. Experience in development, maintenance, and administration of Continuous Integration (CI) Systems.
4. Hands-on experience with declarative pipelines and guiding development teams on implementing infrastructure as code.
5. Experience coding and debugging using Bash, Python, or other scripting languages.
6. Understanding of AWS-based build clusters maintained from AMI images, EC2 instances, and Auto Scaling Groups.
7. Experience leading projects on migration of Source Code management and CI tooling, with knowledge of GitHub and Actions.
8. Experience guiding development teams on build systems using tools like Make, CMake, Maven, Xcode, Swift.
9. Ability to focus on promptly addressing customer needs, even on repetitive tasks.
10. Experience supporting development teams using Linux and Mac.
11. Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities & skills

1. Experience in identifying risks with build toolchains to influence onboarding decisions for new tools related to CI or developer tooling.
2. Awareness of build tools used with Android, iOS, or React Native development.
3. Experience in development, maintenance, and administration of CI systems, preferably Jenkins or Cloudbees.
4. Supporting build systems on projects using TypeScript.
5. Experience in Release Management and driving improvements through automation.