Senior Lead Software Engineer

JPMorganChase; Bournemouth; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial services leader in Bournemouth is seeking a Senior Lead Developer to enhance and deliver innovative technology products within the Securities Services Technology. You'll lead an agile team, drive technical solutions, and ensure high-quality production code. A strong background in Java, software engineering principles, and experience in a large corporate environment is essential for this role. This position provides an excellent opportunity for career advancement and skill refinement.

Qualifications

• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Strong knowledge of design patterns and their application.
• Overall knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle.

Responsibilities

• Lead and execute software solutions and technical troubleshooting.
• Create secure and high-quality production code.
• Gather and analyze large data sets for decision-making.

Skills

Software Engineering concepts

Java 21

Java EE

Spring Framework

Hibernate

React

JavaScript

Oracle

Sybase

Jenkins

JUnit

Maven

Git

JMS

MQ

Education

Formal training or certification in Software Engineering

Job description

Description

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level. As a Senior Lead Developer at JPMorgan Chase within the Securities Services Technology, specifically in the Instruction Capture sub-line of business, you will play a crucial role in leading an agile team focused on the enhancement, design, and delivery of our innovative technology products. Your responsibilities will encompass executing software solutions through the design, development, and technical troubleshooting of various components within a technical product, application, or system. This position offers an excellent opportunity to refine your skills and gain valuable experience for career advancement.

Job responsibilities

• Leads and executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems, with consideration of upstream and downstream systems and technical implications
• Creates secure and high‑quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems
• Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain to improve the value realized by automation
• Gathers, analyzes, synthesizes, and develops visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets to identify problems and contribute to decision‑making in service of secure, stable application development
• 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

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on Software Engineering concepts and proficient advanced experience
• Hands‑on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Proficient in coding in one or more languages such as: Java 21 and Java EE, using Java Frameworks such as Spring & Hibernate, React and JavaScript
• Strong knowledge of design patterns and their application in problem solving
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages like Oracle or Sybase and industry standard tools like Jenkins, JUnit, Maven and Git
• Hands‑on experience working on messaging technologies like JMS and MQ
• Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Familiarity with modern front‑end technologies
• Exposure to cloud technologies - PCF, AWS

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.