Senior Lead Software Engineer- Java, Go and AWS

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to join their Payments Technology team in Glasgow. You will modernize key authentication systems and lead the integration of innovative technologies while collaborating with a diverse team. This role requires strong expertise in software engineering and cloud-native environments, leveraging your skills to drive quality and efficiency across critical projects.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts.
• Experience with authentication practices like OAuth2, SAML.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages, particularly Java.

Responsibilities

• Modernizing authentication and authorization platforms.
• Evaluating internal and vendor solutions for user authentication.
• Driving quality and efficiency of the software development lifecycle.

Skills

Application and data architecture

Collaboration

Authentication practices

Java

Cloud-native environments

Education

Formal training in software engineering

Job description

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Payments Technology team, 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.

Your mission is to be part of a team of innovators and technologists creating the next generation Identity and Access Management solution. Your technical expertise and passion for design, analytics, development, coding, and testing will help the team deliver business-valued outcomes in a secure, robust, and first-class way.

Your expertise in various technology domains will be counted on to set strategic direction and solve complex and mission-critical problems, internally and externally. Your quest to embrace leading-edge technologies and methodologies will inspire the team to follow suit. And best of all, you’ll be able to harness the talents of our global network of technologists from around the world.

Job responsibilities

• Modernizing our authentication and authorization platforms across channels and domains
• Evaluating and prototyping cutting-edge internal and vendor solutions for user authentication
• Integrating innovative anti-fraud and biometric authentication solutions into our customer-facing applications
• Using APIs and SDKs for both niche solutions as well as open standards
• Driving quality and efficiency of the software development lifecycle
• Setting and modelling high technical standards for the team
• Leading evaluation sessions with appropriate teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
• Adding to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and applied experience
• Expertise in application and data architecture disciplines
• Advanced knowledge of architecture, design, and business processes
• Ability to work collaboratively in local and global teams and develop meaningful relationships to achieve common goals
• Experience with authentication and modern authentication practices and solutions (such as OAuth2/OpenID Connect, SAML, Facebook Login, Google Sign-In) are required
• Proficiency in one or more general purpose programming languages, Java is required
• Experience in cloud-native environments such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Flexibility to work across disparate technology stacks and applications