Senior Lead Software Engineer | Glasgow, UK

JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Glasgow
10 months ago
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Job Description

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Sector - Public Cloud Enablement and Adoption team, you will be pivotal in an agile team that is committed to enhancing, developing, and delivering high-quality technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Your knowledge and contributions will significantly influence the business, and your deep technical comprehension and problem-solving abilities will be utilized to tackle a broad spectrum of challenges across diverse technologies and applications.

Job responsibilities

  1. Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors.
  2. Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others.
  3. Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes.
  4. Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus.
  5. Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle.
  6. Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies.
  7. Adds to the team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.
  8. Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems with your AWS cloud experience.
  9. Collaborate with other cloud platform engineering teams to enable the delivery of high-quality, secure, and scalable applications on the cloud.
  10. Stays up-to-date with the latest advancements in cloud technologies and brings in recommendations for adoption and implementation of new tools/technologies.
  11. Ensure compliance with security and regulatory requirements for the cloud.


Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  1. Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and applied experience.
  2. Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
  3. Advanced in one or more programming language(s).
  4. Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.).
  5. Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight.
  6. Practical cloud native experience.
  7. Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
  8. Proficiency in coding in Python and AWS platform experience is essential for this role.
  9. Experience with AWS services, including EC2, EKS, Aurora, DynamoDB, and Lambda.
  10. Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages.
  11. Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security.


Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  1. AWS Professional certification is highly preferred.
  2. Experience in using Python, GO, Terraform, and Kubernetes is highly advantageous.


About Us

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.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

About the Team

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers, and employees up for success.#J-18808-Ljbffr

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