Sr Lead Software Engineer - Tech Lead

J.P. Morgan; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A forward-thinking company seeks a Lead Engineer to drive innovation within their award-winning Research Technology team. This role offers the opportunity to lead a talented scrum team, balancing hands-on coding with technical leadership. You will collaborate with product partners to shape the roadmap and ensure high-quality deliveries. With a focus on modernizing platforms, you will leverage your expertise in programming and system design to create impactful solutions. Join a dynamic environment where your contributions will directly influence the future of financial research technology.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience delivering complex solutions at scale.
• Ability to balance tech, people, and product in a leadership role.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of key solutions to enhance our platforms.
• Coach and grow engineers within the scrum team.

Skills

Leadership

Communication Skills

System Design

Programming Languages

Technical Problem Solving

Job description

As a Lead Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within CIB Research Technology you are a key part of the global team who owns the engineering behind the CIB’s award-winning Research organisation. You are a technical leader in the team, creating solutions that transform and evolve our platform to enable our analysts to produce engaging and high-quality financial research. Our team owns the flagship JPMM Research Platform along with the Content Creation Platform used for producing Research. We work across a variety of stacks and technologies with a broad remit and great deal of autonomy. This role will specifically focus on a key program to extend our platform across the Markets organisation.

Job responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of key solutions to extend, enhance and modernise our platforms
• Balance individual contributor hands-on coding with technical/people leadership of a scrum team
• Collaborate with Product partners to shape and drive the roadmap
• Coach and grow engineers within the scrum team
• Take accountability for the quality, stability and resiliency of the team’s deliveries

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Hands-on, end-to-end experience delivering complex solutions at scale
• Ability to balance tech, people and product in a leadership role
• Experience working within a multi-stakeholder environment partnering with tech leads across an organisation
• Expertise in breaking down product requirements into achievable solutions and execution plans
• Excellent communication skills, particularly in explaining technical concepts to a non-technical audience
• Deep expertise in one or more programming languages and system design/architecture