Senior Lead Software Engineer - Azure Public Cloud

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a prominent financial services firm as a Senior Lead Software Engineer. In this role, you will enhance and deliver technology products while collaborating with an agile team. Your contributions will promote significant business impact, utilizing deep technical expertise and problem-solving abilities.

Qualifications

• Advanced in programming languages - Java, Python, or Go.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with public cloud services such as AWS, Azure, or Google.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical guidance and direction for business and technical teams.
• Develops secure and high-quality production code.
• Acts as a subject matter expert in one or more areas.

Skills

Problem-solving

Collaboration

Education

Formal training on cloud software development

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

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Job Description

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver cutting-edge technology products.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Infrastructure Platforms Cloud Foundation Services, you are an essential member of an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. Your role involves promoting significant business impact through your skills and contributions, utilizing deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to 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
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on cloud software development concepts and proficient advanced experience.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
• Proven experience in software development, with a strong focus on development practices such as Agile, Scrum, or DevOps.
• Experience in implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines to automate and optimize the software delivery process.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s) - Java, Python or Go.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures and microservices design.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform for infrastructure as code to efficiently manage cloud resources.
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight.
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Practical cloud experience with Public Clouds such as AWS, Azure or Google.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience of Kubernetes.
• AWS, Azure or Google certification.
• Comfortable working in an environment where pairing and mobbing are common practices to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing.
• Experience with Spec by Example to ensure high-quality software delivery.
• Ability to work effectively across teams and time zones, ensuring seamless collaboration and communication in a global environment.
• Experience collaborating with architects to align on technical strategies and ensure architectural integrity in software solutions.

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

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.