JPMorgan Sr Manager Software Engineering 

United Kingdom, England, London 

597530500

Employer Description

As a Senior Manager of Software Engineering, you will be leading a team of brilliant engineers to plan, design and implement engineering solutions to various problems. You will get opportunity challenged to provide the most innovative solution. You need to be an out of the box thinker. You will be integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way.

Job responsibilities

• Problem solving – given a problem statement find out and evaluate alternatives, plan, and build quick POC, present it to broader team and stakeholders.
• Lead a group of engineers to provide innovative engineering design and solution to various challenging problems.
• 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.
• Participate and develop to create an intuitive user experience at the front end.
• 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.
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.
• Improves experience for trading, operations developing intuitive user interfaces and performant back ends.
• Work with QR (Quantitative Research) group as well as other technical partners in a collaborative environment.
• Partner with many groups both upstream and downstream with varied priorities. Communication is the key here.
• Drives and executes within the strategy of macro technology, of which commodities is one section (aligning with rates and FX technology peers)

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills.

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Math or equivalent or relevant experience
• Leadership skills – plan, delegate, resolve conflicts and lead a group of engineers through the different phases of the project,
• Quick learning abilities – Athena is Graph based enterprise system. You need to learn Athena quickly to become productive in shortest possible time.
• Hands-on practical experience in any enterprise system in developing robust backend codes.
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s). (Python, C++ and / or Java) . Python knowledge is a big plus.
• Willingness to become proficient and develop in Python if not already a primary language.
• Knowledgeable in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Knowledgeable in the Software Development Life Cycle
• Prior track record of delivery within risk management in financial services
• Ability to collaborate with and influence other technology teams to deliver end to end solutions to the business in a constantly changing environment.
• Knowledgeable in agile development

Preferable

• Software development experience in Commodities, Finance, or Investment banking preferred, or willingness to learn the business domain
• Knowledge of Athena, Quartz, SecDb or equivalent platforms preferred
• Concept of Risk, Markets – any knowledge in commodities markets is a plus.
• Expertise in python, pandas, NumPy, SciPy is a plus.