Lead Software Engineer - Java, AWS

Join the Reconciliation team to solve business and development tasks via technology at a fast pace without compromising on quality or performance.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Bank's Global Sales Tech Team, you will contribute to the team by guiding and supporting solution delivery teams in adopting and adapting agile practices throughout the product development lifecycle. You will be part of the best-in-class Reconciliations platform team and will work with a highly inspired and inquisitive team of technologists who are developing and deploying applications to the highest standards. The team is responsible for providing a multi-asset Reconciliations platform that will cover cash, swaps, listed options and futures across Front, Middle and Back Offices.

Job responsibilities

• Work across entire software development lifecycle: requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, deployment and handover to support teams.
• Be part of the cloud adoption journey.
• Build out and enhance various environments.
• Manage requirements, specifications, and design documents.
• Handle release and stakeholder management.
• Implement test automation.
• Participate in L3 support for Production environments.

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.
• Strong development experience in Java and public cloud offering.
• Comfortable working with Linux based environments and having good knowledge of Unix/Linux commands and shell scripting.
• A strong passion for infrastructure as code and associated automation and provisioning tools like Terraform, Ansible etc.
• Good understanding of CI/CD pipeline build, improvement and management.
• Experience with GIT, Jira, Confluence, Wiki.
• Excellent verbal & written communication skills.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience working in a team with a strong software development process (build, test, deploy).
• Knowledge of KDB/q is a plus.
• Preferred experience in Cloud Infrastructure and related technologies.
• Good understanding of FIX and other financial messaging protocols is preferred.