Lead Software Engineer - Cloud Graph Platforms

ZipRecruiter; England; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A global leader in financial services seeks a Senior Lead Software Engineer to join their agile team at J.P. Morgan. This role involves improving and developing high-quality software products, requiring significant experience in Python and a strong technical background. The ideal candidate will guide technical decisions and bolster the team culture of respect and inclusion, driving innovation within the company.

Qualifications

• 10 years of advanced experience in software solutions.
• Hands-on experience in application development and operational stability.
• Proficiency in Python and its frameworks is crucial.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical guidance to teams and contractors.
• Develops high-quality production code and reviews others' work.
• Maintains managed service environments for dev, test, and prod.

Skills

Python

Cloud

Infrastructure As Code

System Design

Education

Computer Science

Computer Engineering

Mathematics

Tools

Django

Flask

Ansible

SaltStack

Jenkins

Spinnaker

Job description

Job DescriptionJob Description

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 at JPMorgan Chase within the Core & Foundational Platforms (CFP), specifically as a part of our Graph Managed Services Team, you will play a crucial role in an agile environment. Your responsibilities will include improving, developing, and providing reliable, high-quality technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Leveraging your profound technical knowledge and problem-solving skills, you will have a substantial impact on the business and address a wide range of challenges across various technologies and applications.

Job responsibilities

• 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
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
• 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
• Maintains the managed service environments; dev, test, and prod
• Adds to the team culture of equity, respect, and inclusion

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on engineering infrastructure and software solutions concepts and proficient advanced 10 years experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Extensive experience in Python development
• Experience in Python frameworks - Django/Flask etc
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g. Cloud, Infrastructure As Code)
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Experience with configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, SaltStack)
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
• Understanding the importance of great documentation and a passion for helping customers

Additional qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with Graph database technologies
• CI/CD pipelines preferably including Jenkins and/or Spinnaker
• Experience with core services including Active Directory, Kerberos, and DNS
• Comfortable in setting and defining strategic priorities and working with product management
• Ability to collaborate with different roles to achieve common goals

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. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital or veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical 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.