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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Banking (CIB) Technology - Securities Services Technology 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. 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
- Oversee and directly manage the technology connectivity (sFTP, MQ) for new and existing external clients, including raising connectivity requests and dealing with external fee-paying clients
- Coordinate testing responsibilities, including agreeing on test scope with clients, setting up static data, coordinating instruction transmissions, and obtaining sign-off from Operations
- Conduct testing across the SWIFT network and flat files via sFTP
- Liaise and coordinate between external clients, internal CS, and Operations as well as team colleagues.
- Establish project requirements, priorities, and deadlines, ensuring that relevant risk and architecture requirements are in place.
- Communicate with stakeholders across the firm and external clients to work toward the best possible outcomes.
- 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 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.
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Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- Experience in project management, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Knowledge of SWIFT and connectivity technologies such as sFTP and MQ
- Strong client-facing skillset with excellent written and oral English language skills
- Experience in test management, including writing and agreeing on test scopes
- Competence in managing technology connectivity and Instruction Capture testing projects
- Advanced in one or more programming language(s)
- Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Proficient understanding of the Securities Services Line of Business (Custody, Fund Accounting, IMOS) a plus
ABOUT US
J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
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.
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.