DescriptionWe have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of whats possible.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Equities Trading Technology Organization youare an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance build and deliver trusted marketleading 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 firms business objectives.
The role will be based in Athens and will entail both working closely with the London Business and our Global partners.
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 highquality production code and reviews and debugs code written by others
- Identifies opportunities 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 outcomesoriented 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 leadingedge technologies
- Adds to team culture of diversity equity inclusion and respect
- Acts as a role model in the global team and mentors junior team members
- Propose and explore new solutions that can give the firm an edgeover our competitors
- Collaborate with a number of teams including Trading Sales Quantitative Research as well as other technology teams
Required qualifications capabilities and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and proficient advanced experience
- Handson practical experience delivering system design application development testing and operational stability
- Advanced in one or more programming language(s) Java / Python
- 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 Applicant Resiliency and Security
- Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g. cloud artificial intelligence machine learning mobile etc.
- Indepth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
- Practical cloud native experience
- Experience of full project lifecycle breaking requirements down into technical deliverables and effort estimation
- Ability to work effectively within a global team (spread across NA EMEA APAC) while influencing and contributing towards the development of the global platform
Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills
- Ability to work in a fastpaced teamoriented environment
- Knowledge of at least one relational database such as Sybase SQL Server Oracle etc.
About the Innovation Lab in Athens
We recently moved into our new office in Athens Greece. This investment is to support our organic growth in the country and to bolster the innovation efforts of our Payments and Markets business globally.
J.P. Morgan first opened its doors in Greece more than five decades ago and today we provide products and services from across our Investment Banking Payments and Asset & Wealth Management businesses to a number of local and multinational Greek clients.
Greek male nationals must have completed or have no obligatory military service obligations