Senior Lead Software Engineer, Python, Investable Indices Equities Derivatives Technology

Be an integral part of an agile team thats constantly pushing the envelope to enhance build and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase withinin the Cross Markets Strategic Index team you are 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. 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.

J.P. Morgans Cross Markets Strategic Index team is the most successful investable index franchise on Wall Street. We have consistently been ranked number one for innovation assets under management and revenue. The strategic index platform which covers all aspects of trading sales and structuring (including risk profit and loss execution booking market data and client facing applications) is the foundation for this continuously growing and increasingly automated market.

The Strategic Index technology team designs and develops various applications processes and software components for the Strategic Index desk. You will work with a global team of innovators and technologists passionate about improving the way our index business is run. Partnering with our colleagues in the Quantitative Research Structuring Trading Sales and Middle Office teams you will be called upon to deliver quality code in a fast paced environment that evolves as business opportunities present themselves.
Our platform is built using the Athena platform. Athena is J.P. Morgans cross-market risk management and trading system that provides functionality for traders salespeople and operations staff globally. Athena includes an engineer friendly integrated development environment globally replicated object-oriented database a powerful calculation dependency graph and a fully integrated stack across pricing risk and trading tools. Athena is designed to provide a continuous deployment environment and pull developers close to the business to help increase revenues while improving operational processes and controls to reduce costs. Athena applications are written in Python and Typescript.

Job responsibilities

• Own and deliver specific projects within the global program of work
• Collaborate with and influence other technology teams to deliver solutions to meet the needs of our users
  

Required qualifications capabilities and skills

• Bachelors degree in computer science Engineering Mathematics or other related disciplines
• 5 or more years of software engineering experience. Mastery in Python with respect to designing coding testing and software delivery
• The role requires a technically strong and disciplined developer. The successful candidate will be able to make impactful functional deliveries; they will also be one of a handful of senior technologists responsible for influencing design decisions across the group including ensuring that we continuously improve the platforms design as we incorporate new capabilities. A record of delivering high quality well-tested solutions in a mature controlled environment is a prerequisite.
• Experience in performant large-scale system development in an object-oriented or functional programming language such as Python Java C or C#.
• Willingness to become proficient and develop in Python if not already a primary language.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to interact confidently and credibly with business users to understand and agree business requirements and their prioritization while building a good understanding of end to end business processes.
• Good understanding of Agile development methodologies responsible for elucidating and agreeing requirements building relationships with business users and taking ownership of deliverables all the way to the production environment.
• Focus on testing through the entire development cycle to produce reliable and maintainable software.
• Enthusiastic to keep learning and growing in technical aptitude business understanding and personal effectiveness.
• Eager to take ownership of work have real business impact overcome obstacles and take it through to completion working as part of this team and collaborating with a much bigger community of developers sharing the technology and code base.
  Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills
• Experience in finance or investment banking (Market Risk P&L and/or financial modelling) as an application developer is preferred. Knowledge of Equities FX Credit Rates Commodities asset classes and/or Index & Portfolio analytics