Senior Lead Software Engineer — Real-Time KDB on AWS

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in London seeks a Lead Software Engineer within the Commercial & Investment Bank. You will be an integral part of an agile team delivering trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, scalable way.

As a core technical contributor, you will drive critical solutions across multiple areas to support the firm’s objectives. In the Data Analytics team you will work on applications that store large volumes of cross-asset market data using KDB for real-time and historical

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts.
• Hands-on experience delivering system design, development, testing, and operational stability.
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods.
• Proficiency in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security.
• Development lead experience: requirements capture, task decomposition, time and effort estimation, delivery planning, testing, user acceptance testing.
• Deep understanding of KDB technology and Q language with 7+ years using KDB and 2+ years as Lead.
• Experience with large datasets, query optimization, and HA/SCALABLE architectures.

Responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine approaches to build solutions.
• Develops secure high-quality production code and reviews and debugs code written by others.
• Identifies opportunities to automate remediation of recurring issues to improve operational stability.
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness of new technologies.
• Advances team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.
• Develop core systems and frameworks based on KDB.
• Lead team members via book of work management and improve SDLC, testing and coding standards.
• Develop scalable real-time processing solutions using agile methodology.
• Partner with stakeholders to capture requirements and deliver solutions.
• Partner with application support teams to maintain and support the platform.

Skills

Software development lifecycle

Automation

CI/CD

Agile

Lead experience

Security

KDB

Q language

Python

C/C++/Java

Tools

KDB

Q language

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Python

C

C++

Java

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in London seeks a Lead Software Engineer within the Commercial & Investment Bank. You will be an integral part of an agile team delivering trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, scalable way.

As a core technical contributor, you will drive critical solutions across multiple areas to support the firm’s objectives. In the Data Analytics team you will work on applications that store large volumes of cross-asset market data using KDB for real-time and historical