Lead Software Engineer - AWS

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join JPMorgan Chase as a Lead Software Engineer in Glasgow, where you will oversee a team within the Client Data Exchange Team. You'll be responsible for managing day-to-day project implementations and ensuring compliance with business requirements while leveraging your expertise in automation, cloud technologies, and software development life cycles.

Qualifications

• Proficient advanced experience in Java programming.
• Experience leading technology projects and managing teams.
• In-depth knowledge of financial services IT systems.

Responsibilities

• Guide and manage a team of software engineers in daily tasks.
• Ensure team adheres to compliance standards and business requirements.
• Produce architecture and design artifacts for complex applications.

Skills

Java programming

Automation

Agile methodologies

Cloud implementation

Financial services knowledge

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

No SQL Databases (MongoDB)

Kafka

Job description

Job Description

This is your chance to change the path of your career and guide a team to success at one of the world's leading financial institutions.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Client Data Exchange Team, you are hands-on and lead a team and manage day-to-day implementation activities by identifying and escalating issues and ensuring your team's work adheres to compliance standards, business requirements, and tactical best practices.

Job responsibilities

• Provides guidance to immediate team of software engineers on daily tasks and activities
• Sets the overall guidance and expectations for team output, practices, and collaboration
• Anticipates dependencies with other teams to deliver products and applications in line with business requirements
• Manages stakeholder relationships and the team's work in accordance with compliance standards, service level agreements, and business requirements
• Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development
• Gathers, analyzes, synthesizes, and develops visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems
• Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies
• Creates a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect for the team members and prioritizes diverse representation

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on Java programming concepts and proficient advanced experience
• Experience leading technology projects and managing technologists
• Proficient in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle, agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
• Cloud implementation experience with AWS including:
  • AWS Data Services: Glue ETL (or) EMR, S3, Glue Catalog, Athena, Lambda + Step Functions + Event Bridge, ECS
  • Data De/Serialization: Parquet and JSON format
  • AWS Data Security: Good Understanding of security concepts such as: IAM, Service roles, Encryption, KMS, Secrets Manager

• Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Experience in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field and expertise in technology disciplines

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Familiarity with No SQL Databases such as MongoDB
• Experience in various messaging technologies such as Kafka
• Exposure to cloud technologies

About Us

J.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.

About the Team

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.

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