Sr Lead Software Engineer- Python

About the role

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 within the Commercial & Investment Bank Markets Data Strategies Engineering team, you will be an essential member of an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner.

You will drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, applying deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges spanning multiple technologies and applications. In this team, you will play a crucial role in driving the architecture, design, and development efforts across the Markets Data Strategies platform, including the development and adoption of data-driven AI capabilities and leading the platform integration efforts between the Markets Data Lake and Athena, JPMorgan's proprietary next-generation risk, pricing, and trade management platform built in-house.

Our work is focused on business use-cases and collaboration across multiple teams and lines of businesses. The ideal candidate will be adept at driving innovation and standards across a globally dispersed and fast-paced organization, working with quantitative researchers and other technology teams to accelerate the adoption of cloud-based data and AI technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deliver high-performing applications and frameworks that support the Markets Data Lake Platform and Markets Data and AI Strategy.
• Drive innovation, collaboration, and engineering standards across the globally distributed team.
• Regularly provide technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors.
• Develop secure and high-quality production code, and review and debug code written by others.
• Drive decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes.
• Serve as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus.
• Actively contribute to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Influence peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies.

Requirements

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
• Prior experience with Sell-Side analytics platforms (JPMC Athena, SecDB, Quartz, etc.) is a must.
• Advanced experience in software design and architecture, with a focus on Python development.
• Design and implement software applications and APIs to enhance the Markets Data Lake platform.
• Develop microservices and real-time services using technologies such as Kafka streaming.
• Experience with big data technologies and AWS Cloud Platform.
• Experience with AWS Lake Formation and database technologies, including both relational and NoSQL.
• Architect scalable and efficient solutions that align with the firm's federated data lake pattern.
• Strong systems engineering and software development skills.
• Experience building high-performance, highly available, and scalable systems.
• Excellent problem-solving, root cause analysis, and debugging skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing APIs and foundational components.
• Strong SDLC mindset and familiarity with agile paradigms.
• Experience within DevOps, Infrastructure design, and transformation roles.
• Experience with scripting and compiled languages, such as Python.
• Comfortable working across different platforms and languages.

Benefits

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set, and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include:

• Comprehensive health care coverage.
• On-site health and wellness centers.
• A retirement savings plan.
• Backup childcare.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Mental health support.
• Financial coaching.

About the team

J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services, and payments. Corporations, governments, and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk, and extends liquidity in markets around the world.