Technology Support Lead

JPMorganChase; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial services leader is seeking a Technology Support Lead in Greater London to oversee technical support and operational stability for production applications. Responsibilities include managing incidents, leading support teams, and enhancing monitoring tools. The ideal candidate has strong experience in IT services, infrastructure management, and communication skills in English. A collaborative environment focusing on enabling technology solutions is offered.

Qualifications

• Experience managing applications or infrastructure in large-scale technology environments.
• Proficient in industry-standard monitoring tools.
• Excellent teamwork and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams providing application or infrastructure service delivery.
• Monitor production environments for anomalies.
• Manage production technology incidents to resolution.

Skills

Troubleshooting IT services

Observability and monitoring tools

Interpersonal relationship skills

Communication skills (English)

Education

Experience in Object-Oriented Programming / Python, Unix, SQL

Tools

ITIL framework

Public cloud

Job description

As a Technology Support Lead within the Commercial and Investment Bank's Market Technology team, you will play a crucial role in delivering day-to-day technical expertise and operational support to ensure the highest levels of production stability for all applications under your purview. You will help monitor and enhance the monitoring of the application suite, proactively addressing potential issues. Your responsibilities include managing production technology incidents to resolution, ensuring timely engagement, escalation, and effective communication with business, technology, and vendor partners.

You will be a key contributor to the ongoing development of tools, frameworks, and techniques aimed at improving productivity, stability, quality, and promoting automation. Acting as a liaison to Application owners, Production owners, and GTI for strategic initiatives, you will develop and maintain strong relationships with Application Development and DevOps teams to prioritize production issues and bugs. Additionally, you will recommend system changes to minimize manual intervention in monitoring or managing system performance, stability, and availability.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead teams of technologists that provide end-to-end application or infrastructure service delivery for the successful business operations of the firm
• Execute policies and procedures that ensure operational stability and availability
• Monitor production environments for anomalies, address issues, and drive evolution of utilization of standard observability tools
• Escalate and communicate issues and solutions to the business and technology stakeholders, actively participating from incident resolution to service restoration
• Lead incident, problem, and change management in support of full stack technology systems, applications, or infrastructure
• Provide day-to-day technical expertise and operational support to obtain highest degrees of production stability for the Rates applications.
• Work with Application Development (AD) teams to implement fixes and improve stability.
• Help in defining capacity and resiliency requirement metrics and failover/BCP capabilities in partnership with business and AD to improve reliability, stability, and capacity management.
• Help monitor and improve monitoring of the application suite and proactively fix potential issues.
• Translate production issues into technical defects and work on defect management.
• Manage production technology incidents to resolution, ensuring timely engagement, escalation and effective communication to business, technology, and vendor partners. Engage with project teams through the project life, more towards go-live to ensure successful delivery.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Applied experience or equivalent expertise troubleshooting, resolving, and maintaining information technology services
• Experience managing applications or infrastructure in a large-scale technology environment both on premises and public cloud
• Proficient in observability and monitoring tools and techniques
• Experience executing on processes in scope of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework
• Experience in Object-Oriented Programing / Python, Unix, SQL is a mandate.
• Excellent interpersonal relationship / teamwork skills
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) in English, providing clear problem descriptions and resolutions

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Working knowledge in one or more general purpose programming languages and/or automation scripting
• Practical experience with public cloud

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.