Senior Lead Software Engineer - Portfolio Management

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 at JPMorgan Chase within the Asset Management Investment Platform Technology team, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver solutions that support the full Investment Management cycle within the Multi-Asset Solutions Portfolio Management platform. You will be part of the high performing front-office global technology team, provided with the ability to drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

Job responsibilities

• Works closely with the Front Office Portfolio Managers and Research analysts on end-to-end solutions.
• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors.
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others.
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes.
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus.
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies.
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills10+ years of experience in a financial service environment with a focus in front-office applications.

• 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) inclusive of Java.
• Experience implementing frameworks/tools like Spring Java full stack including Spring Boot, Security, and Integration.
• Good understanding of Java concurrency, concurrency patterns, experience building thread safe code.
• Experience with building messaging, event-driven architectures using Kafka/MQ/JMS
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.).
• Strong understanding of development concepts, SDLC methodologies, OOP concepts, SOA principles, enterprise design patterns, industry best practices.
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight.
• Practical cloud native experience (AWS, Pivotal Cloud Foundry)
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience of working in Asset Management/ financial services, in a front-office environment
• Very pro-active, delivery focus, strong experience on Agile programming
• Strong experience in Java full stack, Spring boot, messaging, and SQL/ NoSQL
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving skills

 

JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set, and location. For those in eligible roles, we offer discretionary incentive compensation which may be awarded in recognition of firm performance and individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive he