Lead Software Engineer - Python & SQL

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the COMMERCIAL & INVESTMENT BANK - Athena Trade & Risk Services, 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.

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 firm's 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 external vendors, startups, 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


* Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills


* 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


* Experience of developing in Python or any object oriented language


* Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages


* Strong analytical development skills, solid understanding of computer science fundamentals


* Creative, quick-thinking, pragmatic, with an aptitude for solving problems with technology and an ability to quickly translate requirements into a sound technical design and implementation.


* Proven organizational skills, decisive priority management, strong teamwork ethic, excellent verbal & written communication skills.


* Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.


* Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security


* Experience working in a team with a strong software development process (build, test, deploy etc).


* In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills



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