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Lead Software Engineer - Full-Stack - Market Risk

JPMorgan Chase & Co.
London
1 year ago
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Be an integral part of an agile development team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

Market Risk is a product organization at JP Morgan, within the Risk Management Tower of Corporate Technology. The Market Risk group is responsible for calculating and reporting the risk of losses due to movements in market variables like prices and volatility.

As a Lead Software Engineer within the Electronic-Trading Risk Management group within Market Risk Technology, 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, sustainable and scalable way to help provide our business with governance, controls and transparency. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for providing critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas in support of the firm’s business objectives.

Job responsibilities

Provides direction, oversight, and coaching for a team of entry-level to mid-level software engineers, as well as guidance to product and business teams 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 agility, firmwide 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

Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and proficient advanced experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics  Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability Strong communicator, with experience of engaging with senior leadership/stakeholders Experience in agile product development and mentoring/coaching technologists Advanced experience in at least Java programming language Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight Proficient in automation and continuous delivery methods and all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems Advanced understanding of agile methodologies, CI/CD, Applicant Resiliency, and Security Full stack developer experience with Java, Spring, Hibernate Experience with MongoDB, Spark/BigData/Hadoop ecosystems & cloud technologies Experience with API and Micro services frameworks, container technologies, and workflows Familiarity with modern front-end technologies, especially ReactJS

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