Lead Software Engineer - JAVA

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Bournemouth; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial services leader is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to enhance market-leading technology products. The successful candidate will implement critical solutions and lead a team, ensuring technology meets business objectives. Responsibilities include collaborating across teams, supporting production issues, and enhancing development practices. A strong Java and Agile background is needed, along with proficiency in tools like Git and Jira. This is an opportunity to shape technology in a renowned financial institution.

Qualifications

• Experience in software engineering with advanced proficiency in Java and cloud platforms.
• Strong understanding of Agile processes and SDLC.
• Ability to troubleshoot production issues and improve system performance.

Responsibilities

• Implement critical technology solutions across multiple domains.
• Lead a team of developers and perform code reviews.
• Collaborate with technology teams to meet business objectives.
• Ensure robust technology solutions and document release procedures.

Skills

Java programming

Agile methodologies

Technical troubleshooting

Coaching and mentoring

Git/Bitbucket

CI/CD

Microservice architecture

Tools

Jira

Jenkins

Gradle

Maven

Job description

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Bank organization, you are an integral part of an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. As a core technical contributor, you will be responsible for implementing critical technology solutions across multiple technical domains, supporting various business functions to achieve the firm's business objectives.

Responsibilities & Qualifications

• 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
• Works at code level with Java while leading a team of developers and provides regular coaching, conduct code and design reviews
• Works directly with business Ops and technology teams to articulate new technology requirements and solve business problems
• Collaborates with other members of a globally distributed team to brainstorm new ideas / solutions, and provide mentoring and technical expertise to the team
• Develops specific enhancements and build new solutions to fulfil business objectives related to new business requirements
• Owns the end-to-end process of feature deliveries through the full SDLC process, including requirements gathering, development, unit and integration testing, packaging, deployment, and support
• Work closely with other technology teams to ensure that required changes are made in other systems
• Ensures technology solutions meet business and client requirements, that they are robust and supportable
• Documents release procedures and support notes for deliverables to enable proper support by our production management groups
• Provides third level production support on a rotation basis - analyse issues observed in production, provide detailed analysis and recommendations to production management groups, and identify opportunities to improve the production system.
  Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and applied experience.
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle and tools including Git/Bitbucket, Jira, Jenkins, Gradle, Maven
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, Security, Test-Driven Development (TDD), and using tools such as JUnit and mocking frameworks
• Hands-on coding experience in Java, and understanding of Java Core concepts including object-oriented design, memory management, multi-threading/concurrency, and new language features up to Java 17 while leading team of Software Engineers
• Expertise in Java technologies/frameworks such as Spring/Spring Boot, and REST based services
• Expertise in designing and implementing scalable micro service architectures with high resiliency capabilities
• Proficiency in Unix/Linux environments, ability to navigate the system, investigate processes and logs
• Expertise in Databases, relational, and No-SQL and JVM performance analysis including profiling, heap dump analysis, thread dump analysis, and GC tuning
• Demonstrated ability in supporting production environments, responding to user concerns, and taking ownership of production issues while working in a third level advanced support capacity

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
• Knowledge of cloud compute platforms, including AWS.
• Hands-on coding experience in JavaScript, REACT JS

About the Company

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., J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.