Sr Lead Software Engineer - Tech Lead

J.P. MORGAN; Scotland; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

As a Lead Engineer at a leading financial services firm, you will drive the evolution of the CIB Research Technology platform. This role combines hands-on coding with technical leadership, focusing on enhancing and modernizing key solutions while collaborating with product partners and coaching team members.

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.
• Coach and grow engineers within the scrum team.
• Collaborate with Product partners to shape and drive the roadmap.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Problem Solving

Job description

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

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

J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.