JPMorgan Software Engineer III - Athena Trade & Risk Services 

Argentina, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires 

154327000

As part of the Athena Trade & Risk Services Reference Data team your remit will be to design and deliver technical products aimed to make the usage and discovery of Reference Data across different asset classes a seamless experience. You will work directly with line of business software developers to understand business cases and problems and be responsible for the full pipeline of software delivery. You will build up relationships with internal clients and take full ownership for software delivery to assist with business migrations to the Athena platform. You should be a self-sufficient developer comfortable tackling new and complex problem sets. Prior experience of Reference Data is preferable but more important is the ability to quickly pick up new concepts and flows and back that up with robust, high quality, maintainable and reusable code.

Job responsibilities

• Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Develop robust, performant software products and APIs, and enrich existing applications using the Athena Platform. Align development with the overall Athena Reference Data convergence strategy.
• Work directly with line of business developers to gather requirements, understand business context and translate this into a set of work items for delivery.
• Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems
• Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Proficient in Python (or other Object Oriented Language (Java, C++)) experience with proven track record of high quality successful delivery.
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
• Knowledge of the products traded in capital markets, business processes and applications underpinning them.
• Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Cloud data storage experience.
• Prior experience of similar Athena eco-system, e.g. Quartz, SecDB.
• Realtime data feed experience, service-oriented architecture and experience of APIs.