Lead Software Engineer - Python, Cloud, Data, AIML

J.P. MORGAN; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global financial services firm is seeking a Lead Software Engineer within the Corporate Investment Bank. The role involves developing and delivering technology products and working on innovative projects, including AI/ML solutions. Ideal candidates should have advanced expertise in Python and experience with cloud-native technologies. The firm values diversity and is an equal opportunity employer.

Qualifications

• Advanced experience in Python software engineering.
• Hands-on practical experience in system design and application development.
• Practical experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and MLOps.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical guidance to support the business.
• Develops and reviews secure production code.
• Contributes to engineering community and advocates firmwide frameworks.

Skills

Python software engineering

System design

Application development

Operational stability

Cloud native experience

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

MLOps

Education

Formal training or certification in software engineering

Tools

AWS

OpenSearch

Job description

Job Description

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level. Join JPMorgan Chase as a Lead Software Engineer within the Corporate Investment Bank, Markets Research Technology Team. Design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Work on cutting-edge projects, including LLM and GenerativeAI solutions, and help industrialize AI/ML models at production scale.

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
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
• Designs and implements hands-on solutions while providing technical leadership and mentorship to more junior team members

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and proficient advanced experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in Python software engineering
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., Data engineering, ML engineering, Cloud)
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Practical cloud native experience
• Practical experience with Kubernetes, EKS, Docker, Terraform, MLOps

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience developing large-scale Cloud-native data/AI/ML engineering solutions in large corporate environments
• Prior experience collaborating with data scientists, productionizing POCs to industrial scalable solutions
• AWS clod native experience
• Experience with data science/ML modelling
• Familiarity with modern LLM technologies, Vector databases (e.g., OpenSearch), and Knowledge Graph

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

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.