JPMorgan Senior Lead Software Engineer 

United Kingdom, Scotland 

781745439

Job responsibilities

• Leads and owns technical deliveries, driving solutions through from inception through to production
• Develops Java/Python applications (hands-on) integrated with AWS services like EC2, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB etc.
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes, experience working with Architects to get the best solution
• Regularly provides technical guidance and hands-on support across the team
• Acts as the guardian of quality through code reviews, driving secure, stable and scalable implementations
• Troubleshoots and optimises existing systems for security, performance, availability and cost
• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• 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
• 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 team leadership concepts and advanced applied experience
• Proven ability to Implement and advocate CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment on AWS
• Practical hands-on experience in developing, debugging, optimising and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages (Java or Python) and database querying languages
• Experience/knowledge of AWS Architectures including AWS serverless computing and Microservices Architecture
• Hands-on practical experience in leading system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Experience in working with dispersed global teams to influence and meet objectives
• Strong experience in writing secure, testable, maintainable code
• Ability/experience in solving data-oriented problems using multiple relevant technologies e.g. SQL, Relational DB, Spark, NoSQL while optimizing for performance
• Experience reviewing peer code, improving overall quality of deliveries across a team
• Strong troubleshooting and performance optimization skills, ability to manage Production issues.
• Practical experience of working in and driving an agile culture

• Experience of Spark performance tuning of complex queries on large datasets
• Experience of Big Data technologies
• Experience of Databricks or Cloudera
• Ability to build Fullstack applications
• Exposure to working in an agile development (e.g. story pointing etc)