Sr Lead Software Engineer - COMMODITIES UK

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

Job summary

Join a leading financial institution as a Senior Lead Software Engineer, where you will develop and enhance market-leading technology products. You will leverage deep technical expertise to deliver complex projects, lead teams, and contribute to a culture of innovation and inclusion.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in software industry.
• Proficient in Python, including libraries like numpy, pandas, scipy.
• Ability to solve complex design and functionality problems.

Responsibilities

• Delivering Commodities Front Office Risk and PNL projects.
• Providing technical guidance to business and technical teams.
• Developing secure and high-quality production code.

Skills

Python programming

System design

Cloud native experience

Risk and PNL analytics knowledge

Agile processes

Education

Computer Science or related field

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 IB Markets Macro Business (Commodities), 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

• Delivering Commodities Front Office Risk and PNL projects.
• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Communicating with business stakeholders and technology partners
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• 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
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firm wide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Minimum 15+ years of experience in software industry
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Proficient in Python programming, including numpy, pandas, scipy, etc.
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, machine learning etc.)
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Practical cloud native experience
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
• Ability to lead group or Engineers to reach solution of complex problems

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Knowledgeable in Typescript / React based UI development
• Agile processes.
• Knowledge of Athena
• Knowledgeable in concepts of risk and PNL analytics for at least one asset class, preferable commodities.