Senior Lead Software Engineer Markets Technology

JPMorganChase; City Of London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer within CIB – Markets Technology. You will lead agile teams responsible for building and delivering secure, scalable technology products across multiple applications.

You will apply deep technical expertise in Java, drive architecture improvements, and mentor engineers while partnering with business teams to implement impactful changes.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership delivering end-to-end, complex initiatives spanning multiple applications and workflows.
• Advanced proficiency in Java including hands-on coding; strong architecture and resiliency practices.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for design, code quality, stability, scalability, compliance, and security of multiple components.
• Collaborates with business-aligned teams and engineers to support changes and requirements.
• Drives product design decisions, application functionality, and technical operations.
• Serves as a subject matter expert in focus areas across the function.
• Develops secure, production-grade code and reviews peers’ work.
• Advocates firmwide SDLC frameworks, tools, and best practices.

Skills

Leadership

Java

Communication

Stakeholder negotiation

AI governance

Cloud platforms

Tools

Cloud platforms

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 CIB – Markets Technology, 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

• Accountable for all aspects of 1+ technical components including design, code quality, stability, scalability, stability, compliance, vulnerabilities, etc
• Partners with the business aligned teams and other engineers contributing to the components to support new change requests and requirements
• 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
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Proven leadership delivering end-to-end, complex initiatives spanning multiple applications and workflows, with experience managing teams directly and/or leading through influence in a matrixed environment
• Advanced proficiency in Java incl hands-on technical coding knowledge — actively codes and can demonstrate sound architecture, design, coding standards, and resiliency practices (these will be a major focus during interviews).
• Excellent communication skills — able to clearly articulate technical concepts to engineers and provide crisp, executive-ready updates to senior stakeholders
• Demonstrated conflict resolution and stakeholder negotiation skills

• Proven experience enabling responsible use of approved AI-assisted dev tools, setting standards to validate outputs (correctness, performance, security/resiliency), and coaching engineers on data sensitivity and secure handling.
• Practical enterprise-scale experience incl designing and running on cloud platforms