Lead Software Engineer - Cloud Graph Platforms

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

Job summary

A leading company in financial services seeks a Senior Lead Software Engineer to join their Core & Foundational Platforms team in London. The role involves developing high-quality technology products and providing technical guidance within an agile environment. Candidates should have extensive experience in Python and system design, with a passion for innovation and collaboration.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in engineering infrastructure and software solutions.
• Hands-on experience in system design and application development.
• Extensive Python development experience.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical guidance and develops high-quality production code.
• Drives product design and influences technical operations.
• Maintains managed service environments across dev, test, and prod.

Skills

Python

System Design

Application Development

Operational Stability

Cloud

Infrastructure As Code

Configuration Management

Education

Computer Science

Computer Engineering

Mathematics

Tools

Django

Flask

Ansible

SaltStack

Jenkins

Spinnaker

Job 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 diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

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

Preferred 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