Software Engineer II - AWS

J.P. MORGAN; Scotland; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

J.P. Morgan seeks a Software Engineer III to join their Corporate Sector Reference Data team. You will design and implement technology solutions that support business objectives, ensuring high standards of security and stability in an agile environment. The ideal candidate will have robust experience in Python, AWS, and agile methodologies, and contribute to a culture of diversity and respect.

Qualifications

• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining software in a corporate environment.
• Formal training or certification on Python and practical experience in AWS.
• Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle and agile methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain secure software solutions.
• Analyze and develop visualizations from large data sets.
• Contribute to engineering practices and culture within the team.

Skills

Python concepts

System design

Operational stability

Data Security

Cloud implementation

Agile methodologies

Java

Big Data technologies

Job description

Job Description

You're ready to gain the skills and experience needed to grow within your role and advance your career — and we have the perfect software engineering opportunity for you.

As a Software Engineer III at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Sector Reference Data team, you will be instrumental in an agile setting, utilizing your expertise to design and develop cutting-edge technology products that emphasize security, stability, and scalability. Your role involves implementing vital technology solutions across various technical domains to effectively propel the firm's business objectives forward.

Job responsibilities

• Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems
• Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development
• Gathers, analyzes, synthesizes, and develops visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems
• Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on Python concepts and expanding applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Cloud implementation experience with AWS including:
  • AWS Data Services: Glue ETL (or) EMR, S3, Glue Catalog, Athena, Lambda + Step Functions + Event Bridge, ECS
  • Data De/Serialization: Parquet and JSON format
  • AWS Data Security: Good Understanding of security concepts such as: IAM, Service roles, Encryption, KMS, Secrets Manager
• Practical exposure with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions such as Terraform and CloudFormation
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
• Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Familiarity with No SQL Databases such as MongoDB
• Experience in various messaging technologies such as Kafka
• Cloud Certifications including AWS Developer Associate, AWS Solutions Architect Associate
• Experience with PySpark
• Good understanding of event based architecture
• AI/ML field knowledge and trends
• Experience with Java, Big Data technologies will be a strong plus

About Us

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

About The Team

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.