JPMorgan Manager Software Engineering - Java Backend 

United Kingdom, Scotland 

550429969

Job responsibilities

• Provides guidance to immediate team of software engineers on daily tasks and activities
• Sets the overall guidance and expectations for team output, practices, and collaboration
• Anticipates dependencies with other teams to deliver products and applications in line with business requirements
• Manages stakeholder relationships and the team’s work in accordance with compliance standards, service level agreements, and business requirements
• Takes ownership for working with stakeholders from Corporate Treasury and Lines of Business to understand and refine requirements, influencing senior stakeholders to make the right decisions
• Manages a team software engineers, including individual coaching and career guidance
• Creates a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect for the team members and prioritizes diverse representation

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on technology project leadership concepts and advanced applied experience. In addition, demonstrated coaching and mentoring experience
• Experience managing a team of technologists
• Proficient in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Applicant Resiliency, and Security
• Experience delivering production changes to complex software using Java (or Scala) and associated frameworks (ideally Spark)
• Ability to solve data-oriented problems using multiple relevant technologies e.g. SQL, Relational DB, Spark, NoSQL etc. while optimizing for performance

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• In depth knowledge of the financial services industry, ideally with experience in Liquidity and/or Risk domains
• Real-world experience with Spark performance tuning of complex calculations on large datasets