Lead Software Engineer FIXED INCOME UK

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Commercial and Investment Bank - Post Trade Technology Group 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 you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firms business objectives.

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
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with business stakeholders 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
• Use AI-assisted tools to accelerate engineering work while maintaining controls including:
  • Drafting/refactoring code and documentation with validation via tests code review and static/security scanning.
  • Generating and expanding test scenarios (edge cases regression suites) and verifying correctness/coverage.
  • Assisting with troubleshooting by summarizing signals (logs/alerts/traces) and proposing hypotheses confirmed through reproducible investigation.
• Apply responsible AI practices: protect sensitive data avoid inappropriate input of confidential information and treat AI output as non-authoritative until verified.
• Adds to team culture of diversity equity inclusion and respect

Required qualifications capabilities and skills

• Formal training or certification on engineering concepts and 10 years applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design application development testing and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s)
• 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 artificial intelligence machine learning mobile etc.)
• Proficient in full stack development skill Java 21 REACT or any other frameworks building into Public Cloud and CD/CD strategies.

• Practical experience using AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity and quality with a strong verification mindset (tests peer review).

• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
• Practical cloud native experience

• Experience with observability tooling and practices (structured logging metrics distributed tracing) and incident/problem management.

Work Style / Ways of Working

• Strong communication skills ownership mindset and ability to collaborate across product engineering and operations.
• Commitment to inclusive teamwork and continuous improvement in engineering practices and delivery excellence.