Senior Lead Software Engineer

J.P. Morgan; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior Lead Software Engineer, where you'll play a crucial role in enhancing and delivering top-tier technology products. In this dynamic position, you will utilize your expertise in cloud technologies and programming languages to solve complex challenges and drive innovation. Your contributions will significantly impact the business, and you'll collaborate with a diverse team committed to excellence and inclusion. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a team that values technical prowess and creativity, delivering high-quality solutions in a secure and scalable manner.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts.
• Hands-on experience in system design and application development.
• Advanced knowledge in cloud technologies and AI.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance to support business and technical teams.
• Develop secure production code and review code from others.
• Collaborate with cloud engineering teams for high-quality applications.

Skills

Python

AWS

Cloud Technologies

Software Engineering Concepts

Agile Methodologies

Problem-Solving

Education

Computer Science

Computer Engineering

Mathematics

Tools

AWS EC2

AWS EKS

AWS Aurora

AWS DynamoDB

AWS Lambda

Terraform

Kubernetes

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 Corporate Sector - Public Cloud Enablement and Adoption team, you will be pivotal in an agile team that is committed to enhancing, developing, and delivering high-quality technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Your knowledge and contributions will significantly influence the business, and your deep technical comprehension and problem-solving abilities will be utilized to tackle a broad spectrum of challenges across diverse 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
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
• Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problemswith your AWS cloud experience
• Collaborate with other cloud platform engineering teams to enable the delivery of high-quality, secure, and scalable applications on the cloud
• Stays up-to-date with the latest advancements in cloud technologies and bring in recommendations for adoption and implementation of new tools/technologies.
• Ensure compliance with security and regulatory requirements for the cloud.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and applied experience.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s)
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Practical cloud native experience
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
• Proficiency in coding in Python and AWS platform experience is essential for this role.
• Experience with AWS services, including EC2 ,EKS, Aurora, DynamoDB and Lambda.
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages.
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• AWS Professional certification is highly preferred.
• Experience in using Python, GO, Terraform and Kubernetes is highly advantageous.