Lead Software Engineer - Python / Web developer

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank - Prime Finance Collateral Basket team, you will work hand in hand daily with JPM traders and Middle Office. You will help drive the expansion in North America of our a best-in-class platform used to manage the bank’s equity inventory, our client funds lifecycle, their associated reporting and the automation of the firm booking process.

Job responsibilities

• Work directly with business, quant and technology teams to articulate new technology requirements and solve business problems.

• Collaborate with other members of a globally distributed team to brainstorm new ideas / solutions and provide mentoring and technical expertise to the team.

• Develop specific enhancements and/or build new solutions to fulfill business objectives related to new business requirements.

• Manage ownership of feature deliveries through the full SDLC process, including requirements gathering, development, unit and integration testing, packaging, deployment and support.

• Work closely with other technology teams to ensure that required changes are made in other systems.

• Ensure technological solutions meet business and client requirements, that they are robust and supportable.

• Document release procedures and support notes for deliverables to enable proper support by our production management groups.

• Provide 3rd Level production support on a rotational basis – analyze issues observed in production, provide detailed analysis and recommendations to production management groups, and identify opportunities to improve the production system.

• Mentor junior developers and conduct code and design reviews.

• Train AI agents to automate support, documentation, and streamline development lifecycle.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on Software Engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Excellent understanding of Python concepts, including object-oriented design, multi-threading, parallel processing.

• Excellent understanding of UI concepts, languages and platforms including JavaScript/React, AngularJS, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3.

• Experience of working in financial services knows business, understands and worked in finance and asset management

• Experience in technical leadership roles, working with teams of developers with varying levels of experience, and a range of different backgrounds and skill sets.

• Experience with Python Web Framework such as Tornado or Bottle