Senior Principal Software Engineer - Spread Technology

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As a Senior Principal Software Engineer at JP Morgan Chase within the CIB Markets Spread Trading Technology line of business, you have proven experience building robust systems and driving enhancements to deliver market-leading technology.

You are a force multiplier at both a line-of-business and firmwide level, and are seen as a thought leader in cross-functional engineering that builds a culture of reliability.

Joining the Production Engineering team, you will be part of a small senior group of engineers solving the most challenging and high-impact problems, delivering resilient, supportable software solutions across 150+ proprietary applications and numerous technologies.

You will be involved in strategic priorities including improving observability, bespoke tooling and reducing the operational overhead of production applications, as well as tactical opportunities, working intensively with teams across the organization to tackle the most urgent, impactful and high-priority initiatives

Job responsibilities


* Develops and implements strategies to enhance the operational efficiency and supportability of large-scale platforms, ensuring seamless integration and minimal downtime.


* Leads initiatives to automate repetitive tasks and processes, reducing manual intervention and increasing system reliability.


* Collaborates with cross-functional teams to identify and address operational inefficiencies, driving continuous improvement in system performance and supportability.


* Partners with stakeholders to align operational strategies with business objectives, ensuring that technical solutions meet organizational needs.


* Designs and delivers software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of complex and large-scale systems


* Influences and creates new designs, architectures, standards, and best practices in support of service level objectives


* Designs and conducts performance tests and identifies bottlenecks and opportunities for optimization and the capacity demand

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills


* Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 15+ years applied experience


* 15+ years of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate, and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise


* Expert knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable depth in more than one technical discipline


* Experience with detecting opportunities to automate, combine, or simplify control points and executing solutions


* Ability to lead ongoing assessments to improve application


* Deepened understanding of using techniques to creative innovative solutions to roadblocks (e.g., design thinking, continuous improvement, rapid prototyping...