Job Description
Work with highly-skilled team of technologists who are responsible for maintaining JPMorgan's cutting edge Trading applications. The platform provides services ranging from OMS, market data, reference data, session and recovery management, routing and back office system feeding for Global markets.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank's Equities team, you will participate in all aspects of e-trading development from design and build to deployment with a focus on infrastructure, administrative, operational tasks as detailed in Key Responsibilities. You must be comfortable working as a front-office specialist in a high pressure, challenging environment and solving business and development tasks via technology in a fast pace: time to market is critical, but without compromising on quality or performance.
Job Responsibilities
- Build out and enhance Development environments
- Manage documentation, specifications, and design documents
- Handle release management, such as integrating changes into release tickets for various applications and co-ordinating/communicating with stakeholders
- Implement resiliency design and setup, help setting up & owning components such as Market Data, Reference data & Drop copies.
- Help with or implement solution of test automation
- Liaise with different teams and lead cyber security and stability initiatives
- Share responsibility of support for Dev, UAT, and Production with teammates
- Work across entire software development lifecycle - requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, deployment, handover to support teams.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Strong analytical development skills, solid understanding of computer science fundamentals.
- Proficiency in using a programming language such as Python
- Good knowledge of Unix/Linux commands and shell scripting
- Excellent verbal & written communication skills.
- Good understanding of FIX and other financial messaging protocols
- Hands on experience in test automation and tools
- Experience with GIT, Jira, Confluence, Wiki
- Experience in using Jenkins pipelines and building CI/CD pipelines.
