Sr Lead Software Engineer- Python

Job Description

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

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank Markets Data Strategies Engineering team, you will be an essential member of an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. You will drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, applying deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges spanning multiple technologies and applications.

In this team, you will play a crucial role as part of the team tasked to drive the architecture, design, and development efforts across the Markets Data Strategies platform. This includes the development and adoption of data-driven AI capabilities as well as leading the platform integration efforts between the Markets Data Lake and Athena, which is JPMorgan's proprietary next generation risk, pricing, and trade management platform built in-house. Our work is focused on business use-cases and collaboration across multiple teams and lines of businesses. The ideal candidate will be adept at driving innovation and standards across a globally dispersed and fast paced organization. This includes working with quantitative researchers and other technology teams to accelerate the adoption of cloud-based data and AI technologies.

Job Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and deliver high-performing applications and frameworks that support the Markets Data Lake Platform and Markets Data and AI Strategy.

• Drive innovation, collaboration, and engineering standards across the globally distributed team.

• Regularly provide technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors.

• Develop secure and high-quality production code, and review and debug code written by others.

• Drive decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes.

• Serve as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus.

• Actively contribute to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle.

• Influence peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.

• Prior experience with Sell-Side analytics platforms (JPMC Athena, SecDB, Quartz, etc.) is a must.

• Advanced experience in software design and architecture, with a focus on Python development.

• Design and implement software applications and APIs to enhance the Markets Data Lake platform.

• Develop microservices and real-time services using technologies such as Kafka streaming.

• Experience with big data technologies and AWS Cloud Platform.

• Experience with AWS Lake Formation and database technologies, including both relational and NoSQL.

• Architect scalable and efficient solutions that align with the firm's federated data lake pattern.

• Strong systems engineering and software development skills.

• Experience building high-performance, highly available, and scalable systems.

• Excellent problem-solving, root cause analysis, and debugging skills.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Experience developing APIs and foundational components.

• Strong SDLC mindset and familiarity with agile paradigms.

• Experience within DevOps, Infrastructure design, and transformation roles.

• Experience with scripting and compiled languages, such as Python

• Comfortable working across different platforms and languages.

About Us

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans

About the Team

J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.