Lead Software Engineer - Java, Markets Technology

Description

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate & Investment Bank's Futures & Options Trade Processing Team, 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 .In our business, our global footprint on some 80 exchanges is a clear market differentiator. But equally important is the timely, error-free and efficient processing of client trades, underpinned by resilient and performant cloud based technology. Our global team has a large presence in London with additional team members in Glasgow, Chicago, Bangalore and Singapore; extensive collaboration between locations is a feature of our working environment.

Job responsibilities

Design and build scalable and resilient technical solutions.

Lead a team of associate full stack developers and proactively look to develop, implement and further development best practices across the group.

Drive the delivery of business value via change programs/projects within the Futures & Options Trading Technology Group

Create automated unit tests using a Test Driven CI/CD Development approach

Develop a strong understanding of key functions of clearing, margining & settlements within the Futures & Options world

Partner with supporting tech leads to develop realistic and achievable project estimates.

Analysis and build within Control, Stability, Resiliency, Capacity & Performance areas.

Testing: Unit, SIT & UAT planning and management.

Robust delivery of code into the production environment with zero tolerance for post implementation issues

Take part in decisions affecting long range organizational goals & strategic planning.

Contribute to quality improvement, code reviews, code/architecture standards, code reuse

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience in Java

Experience with AWS or other clouds such as Azure or Google Cloud

Very Strong problem solving, analytical and communication skills (both verbal and written)

Expert level knowledge of core Java (at least 1.8) with clear understanding of advanced concepts in collection framework, garbage collection, multi threading

Experience working with Maven, Jenkins, Git/Subversion

Experience working with related technical frameworks – Spring, JMS, JDBC, Hibernate/JPA

Solid understanding of database concepts and working knowledge with any of the vendors (Preferably Oracle) with at least some exposure to performance tuning

Ability to take on difficult and complex large scale problems and provide end to end solutions

Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders in business, operations, operate

Some experience of providing production support in a Level2/Level3 capacity

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Experience of working in an Investment Banking context in particular in a Futures & Options department

Understanding of the trade lifecycle and back-office functions: clearing, margining, settlements, collateral, interest, accounting and cash management

Experience of working in an agile environment

Experience with FIX protocol

Experience with doing heap analysis, profiling etc.