Job Description
Join the team of experienced technologists and participate in all aspects of e-trading development from design and build to deployment with a focus on infrastructure, administrative, operational tasks as detailed in Key Responsibilities.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank's Equities Tech team, you will be working as a front-office specialist in a high pressure, challenging environment and solving business and development tasks via technology in a fast pace: time to market is critical, but without compromising on quality or performance. This team is responsible for maintaining JPMorgan's cutting edge Trading applications. The platform provides services ranging from OMS, market data, reference data, session and recovery management, routing and back office system feeding for Global markets.
Job responsibilities
- Design, develop, and implement a robust automation testing framework using Python and Java to support electronic trading exchange connectivity.
- Lead the automation of testing processes, reducing manual intervention and increasing efficiency.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Application Development, Business Analysts, and Production Management, to ensure comprehensive automation coverage and effectiveness.
- Oversee the successful completion of automation activities across multiple work streams and ensure optimum solutions are achieved.
- Drive your own workload with minimal management oversight, ensuring timely delivery of testing solutions.
- Liaise with global team members to ensure cohesive and coordinated efforts across regions.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Proficiency in Python and/or Java for developing automation tools and frameworks.
- Familiarity with scripting languages such as Python, Bash
- Experience with tools such as Jules, Ansible or TestNG.
- Knowledge of behavior-driven development (BDD) tools like Cucumber or JBehave.
- Experience with version control systems like Git for managing code and configuration files.
- Experience with task scheduling tools like cron (Linux) or Task Scheduler (Windows)
- Ability to write scripts to automate repetitive tasks and processes.
- Experience working in a team with a strong software development process (build, test, deploy)
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Strong technology generalist - experience building and supporting high performance and resilient applications used within a high performance/real time environment.
- Experience in Electronic trading technology / Futures and Options is a plus
- Proven experience in TCP, Server-side and messaging based applications.
- Good understanding of FIX and other financial messaging protocols is preferred.
- Experience with code quality scanning and code coverage tools like Sonar, Coverity, Jacoco, Corbetura, etc. will be plus
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What We Do
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $3.7 trillion and operations worldwide. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small businesses, commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase & Co. serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan and Chase brands.
Technology fuels every aspect of our company and is at the heart of everything we do. With over 50,000 technologists globally and an annual tech spend of $12 billion, we are dedicated to improving the design, analytics, development, coding, testing and application programming that goes into creating high quality software and new products.
Learn more about technology at our firm, explore resources from our Distinguished Engineers, AI & ML researchers, and other experts; access the latest episode of our TechTrends podcast, and more at www.jpmorgan.com/technology. Information about JPMorgan Chase & Co. is available at www.jpmorganchase.com.
©2023 JPMorgan Chase & Co. All rights reserved. JPMorgan Chase is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans.
Why Work With Us
Our technologists work on a diverse range of solutions that include strategic technology initiatives, big data, mobile, electronic payments, machine learning, cybersecurity, enterprise cloud development, and other state-of-the-art technologies.
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