Python Software Engineer - Equities Intraday Risk - VP - CIB
J.P. Morgan
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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Equities LOB, you are an 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. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.
As part of the Equities Intraday Risk team your remit will be to design and deliver technical products which directly enable front office users to manage their Risk in an accurate and timely manner. You will work with line of business software developers to understand business use cases and problems and be responsible for the full pipeline of software delivery. You will build up relationships with internal clients and take full ownership for software delivery to assist with business migrations to the Athena platform.
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
- Develop robust, performant software products and APIs, and enrich existing applications using the Athena Platform.
- Work directly with line of business users to gather requirements, understand business context and translate this into a set of work items for delivery.
- Be responsible for the entire software development lifecycle: requirement gathering, design, implementation, testing, and handover to line of business teams.
- Enhance the team by demonstrating best practice throughout the software development lifecycle: testing, code review, accurate status reporting, focus on application resilience and “operability”.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- 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, Application 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
- Professional python experience with proven track record of high quality successful delivery.
- Proven wide ranging technical experience demonstrating a genuine interest in technical products and problem solving.
- Knowledge of the products traded in capital markets, business processes and applications underpinning them.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to integrate into a cross region team.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Prior experience of similar Athena eco-system, e.g. Quartz, SecDB. with strong Python skills.
- Distributed Risk calculations leveraging on-prem and/or off-prem infrastructure.
- Knowledge of Object Oriented Language (Java, C++).
J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.
Python Software Engineer – Equities Intraday Risk - VP – CIB
