Python Software Engineer – Equities Intraday Risk - VP – CIB
Lead (VP-level) Python engineer on JPMorgan Chase's Equities Intraday Risk team in London, designing and delivering risk-management products and APIs on the Athena platform for front-office users. Owns the full delivery lifecycle — requirements, design, coding, testing, and handover — within an agile, cloud-based setup.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- C level
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Professional Python experience with proven track record of high quality successful delivery
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced in one or more programming languages
- 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, AI, ML, mobile)
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
- Practical cloud native experience
- Proven wide ranging technical experience with genuine interest in technical products and problem solving
- Knowledge of products traded in capital markets and the business processes and applications underpinning them
- Excellent communication skills and ability to integrate into a cross-region team
Nice to have
- Prior experience of a similar Athena eco-system (e.g., Quartz, SecDB) with strong Python skills
- Distributed risk calculations leveraging on-prem and/or off-prem infrastructure
- Knowledge of object-oriented languages (Java, C++)
Full description
We have an opportunity toimpactyour career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits ofwhat'spossible.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within theEquities LOB, 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, youare responsible forconducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s businessobjectives.
As part of the Equities Intraday Risk team your remit will be to design and deliver technical products which directly enable front office users to manage their Risk in an accurate and timely manner. You will work with line of business software developers to understand business use cases and problems and be responsible for the full pipeline of software delivery. You will build up relationships with internal clients and take full ownership for software delivery to assist with business migrations to the Athena platform.
Job responsibilities
- Executes 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
- Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- Identifiesopportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
- Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
- Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
- Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
- Develop robust, performant software products and APIs, and enrich existing applications using the Athena Platform.
- Work directly with line of business users to gather requirements, understand business context and translate this into a set of work items for delivery.
- Be responsible for the entire software development lifecycle: requirement gathering, design, implementation, testing, and handover to line of business teams.
- Enhance the team by demonstrating best practice throughout the software development lifecycle: testing, code review, accurate status reporting, focus on application resilience and “operability”.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability