Lead Software Engineer - Front Office FX - Python

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment bank in Foreign Exchange Global Business, youare 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.

• Execute 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
• Participate in the Design phase and interact with various teams, other technology team and stakeholder.
• Build the new platform using state of the art proprietary technology from JPMorgan Chase.
• Write documentation. Work with business and technology partners to identify and mitigate technical issues
• Maintain and support applications for trading and pricing technologies and related technical infrastructure utilized by the firm's FX Option trading businesses.
• Develop secure high quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Lead communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading edge technologies
• Provide system related solutions for risk management and trade settlement issues
• Define and record application disaster recovery plans and procedures, identify application issues, and provide technical input on changes and enhancements to critical technology
• Add to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s) Python, C++, Java or Go language
• Strong Analytical and problem solving skills.
• Solid technology background with experience in object oriented programming.
• 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

• Knowledge of Python.
• Experience with SecDB / Athena / Quartz platform.
• Currency Trading Business knowledge.
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems