Senior Lead Software Engineer - CDAO Metadata Engineering

J.P. Morgan; London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in London is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to enhance and deliver technology products. This role requires over 10 years of experience in system design and application development, along with a strong expertise in programming languages like Scala and Java. The successful candidate will drive significant technical decisions and will contribute to a diverse team culture.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience.
• Hands-on experience with system design and application development.
• Ability to work independently with minimal oversight.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical guidance to teams and contractors.
• Develops secure and high-quality production code.
• Drives product design and functionality decisions.

Skills

System design

Application development

Testing

Operational stability

Advanced programming

Cloud native experience

Problem-solving

Education

Computer Science

Tools

Scala

Java

SQL

No-SQL databases

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 JPMorganChase within the Data Platforms team in the Chief Data & Analytics Office, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple 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

• 10+ years of 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

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Expertise in building distributed systems in Scala and Java
• Experience in (or be open to) managing small teams
• Proficient with SQL/No-SQL databases
• Typelevel Stack (Cats, Http4s) preferred
• Experience in OpenSearch/ElasticSearch