Senior Lead Software Engineer - Java, Cloud Native

J.P. Morgan; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading financial services firm as a Senior Lead Software Engineer, where you will enhance and deliver cutting-edge technology products. Collaborate within an agile team to drive modernization efforts, tackle diverse challenges, and influence product design and functionality. Your expertise in Java, cloud technologies, and software engineering will be crucial in shaping the future of our applications.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering.
• Hands-on experience in system design and application development.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance and develop secure, high-quality production code.
• Drive decisions that shape product design and application functionality.
• Contribute to the engineering community and advocate for best practices.

Skills

Java

Cloud Technologies

Artificial Intelligence

Machine Learning

System Design

Education

Computer Science

Computer Engineering

Mathematics

Tools

Terraform

AWS

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 Equities - Prime Financial Service, you are an integral part of Core Engineering and Architecture group which drives the modenisation of applications across the group. This group drives various engineering efforts aligned to data engineering, cloud migrations and adoption of AI4Tech within Prime Financial Services technology group. You would 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

• Provide regular technical guidance and direction to support the business and various technical teams.
• Develop secure, high-quality production code, and review and debug code written by others.
• Drive decisions that shape product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes.
• Serve as a subject matter expert across more than one cloud technology and be keen to learn the business functions within PFS.
• Actively contribute to the engineering community by advocating for firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices within the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Influence peers and project decision-makers to adopt and apply leading-edge technologies.
• Foster a team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and proficient advanced experience in Java
• Hands-on experience in system design, application development, testing, and ensuring operational stability.
• Proficiency in Java and cloud technologies including AWS services.
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes, with deep expertise in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile).
• Ability to independently tackle design and functionality challenges with minimal oversight.
• Practical experience with cloud-native technologies.
• Background in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience in IaC like Terraform
• Expertise in software design and architecture.
• Experience with Python or JavaScript.