JPMorgan Lead Software Engineer - Python & SQL 

United States, Texas, Houston 

737553678

COMMERCIAL & INVESTMENT BANK -Athena Trade & Risk Services,

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
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Experience of developing in Python or any object oriented language
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
• Strong analytical development skills, solid understanding of computer science fundamentals
• Creative, quick-thinking, pragmatic, with an aptitude for solving problems with technology and an ability to quickly translate requirements into a sound technical design and implementation.
• Proven organizational skills, decisive priority management, strong teamwork ethic, excellent verbal & written communication skills.
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Experience working in a team with a strong software development process (build, test, deploy etc).
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems

• Experience in real-time, resilient, high performance and/or risk and pricing and/or eTrading areas.