Lead DevOps Software Engineer, Equities Trading Technologies

JPMorganChase; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global financial services firm in Singapore seeks a Lead DevOps Software Engineer to enhance and deliver market-leading technology products. This role involves developing scripts, executing release processes, and collaborating with various teams to drive reliability. Applicants should have over 5 years of experience, a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent, and expertise in continuous integration environments like Jenkins. Strong skills in Python and familiarity with electronic trading are preferred.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of applied experience in engineering concepts.
• Ability to independently manage tasks from requirement gathering to maintenance.
• Expertise in implementing and managing high-availability infrastructure solutions.

Responsibilities

• Develop high-quality scripts and code modifications.
• Execute and automate the release process.
• Coordinate with subject matter experts to promote reliability.

Skills

Configuration management

Build tools

Continuous integration

Collaboration

Application development

Python development

FIX protocol

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Formal training or certification in engineering concepts

Tools

Jenkins

Splunk

Grafana

Job description

As a Lead Devops Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Banking Team, 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

• Develop high-quality scripts and code modifications to support the application
• Execute and automate the release process and manage changes for applications and environments.
• Contribute actively to the engineering community by advocating firmwide frameworks, tools, and Software Development Life Cycle practices.
• Coordinate with infrastructure, platform, and application subject matter experts to promote reliability through communication and sharing best practices.
• Investigate issues reported by Production Management.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Formal training or certification in engineering concepts with 5+ years of applied experience
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Ability to independently address design and functionality problems with minimal oversight, managing tasks from requirements gathering to deployment and maintenance.
• Proficient with configuration management, build tools, and continuous integration environments such as Jenkins.
• Experience in identifying problem or opportunity areas, developing and implementing necessary fixes and changes, and championing new technologies/processes from design to production.
• Expertise in implementing and managing high-availability infrastructure solutions with automatic failover, and designing, building, and troubleshooting large‑scale distributed systems.
• Effective collaboration with teams such as Site Reliability Engineering, Product Management, DevOps, and Lead Software Engineers, and experience in mentoring and guiding team members constructively across various disciplines.
• Demonstrated proficiency in application development and support for associated infrastructure, with experience primarily in trading‑based applications in Linux.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Experience with Electronic Trading and FIX protocol necessary
• Knowledge of equities, futures, and options exchange connectivity in global markets is desirable
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk and Grafana.
• Proficiency in Python development; knowledge of C++ is advantageous

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.