JPMorgan Senior Lead Software Engineer- Observability 

United Kingdom, Scotland 

797200846

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
• Leads the design and development of observability solutions tailored to the specific needs and challenges of our systems and infrastructure at scale.
• Collaborates with customer teams to identify common pain points and challenges related to observability and develops solutions to address them.
• Creates documentation, guides & tech primers that champion & streamline observability adoption across the organisation.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and proficient in applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s)
• Proficiency 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
• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
• Practical cloud native experience of AWS fundamentals such as compute, networking, storage, security policies and how to build & deploy applications into that eco-system
• Enjoys presenting to other engineers on proposed designs and approaches
• Proficient in written and verbal communication skills with the ability to articulate concepts to stakeholders, senior management and customers

• Experience with one or more observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, Datadog, Splunk etc.
• Experience of deploying and operating distributed systems
• Understanding and experience of Open Telemetry (OTel) standards and tools
• Can demonstrate how to build secure applications, using tools to identify and remediate vulnerabilities and use modern techniques to control access to applications and APIs