JPMorgan Lead Software Engineer - Markets Technology 

United States, Texas, Houston 

5116432

Job responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Work in large collaborative teams regionally and globally to achieve organizational goals, and passionate about building an innovative culture
• Own and deliver specific projects within the global program of work
• Mentor team members to provide career development guidance and technical guidance
• Proactively improves the process to ensure quality of the deliverables and the efficiency of the team improves.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience. In addition, demonstrated coaching and mentoring experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Experience in performant, large-scale system development in an object-oriented or functional programming language such as Python, Java, C++ or C#
• Self-motivated and willing to become proficient and develop in Python if not already a primary language
• Expertise in testing through the entire development cycle to produce reliable and maintainable software.
• Experience managing global teams of developers, providing technical support on a day-to-day basis
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Proven experience leading team
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Application development experience in Finance or Investment banking
• Knowledge of Equities, FX, Credit, Rates, Commodities asset classes and/or Index & Portfolio analytics