Software Engineer III - Athena Trade & Risk Services (Reference Data)

Job Description
As a seasoned Software Engineer, your goal is to design, develop, and deliver software components within the Athena ecosystem. You will collaborate with a team of innovators and technologists focused on creating advanced solutions that enhance our business operations. Your extensive knowledge in analyzing, designing, coding, testing, and deploying software will be crucial in solving problems in both business and technical contexts. Your expertise across various technology domains will be essential in setting strategic direction and addressing complex, mission-critical issues, both internally and externally. Best of all, you'll leverage a vast network of technologists from around the globe.
Athena is a cross-asset platform revolutionizing technology at JP Morgan. It provides innovative and efficient applications to a broad spectrum of the firm's business, including sales, trading, operations, risk, and research. Athena merges the best of open-source technologies with innovative components developed internally, offering candidates the opportunity to contribute to a wide array of exciting projects. Our developers enjoy collaborating with front office, quants, and other technology teams.
We seek hands-on Software Engineers who relish solving challenging technical problems. Ideal candidates possess a strong foundation in Computer Science, and are capable of working across different platforms and languages. Candidates are motivated by working in a collaborative, fast-paced environment with a high degree of code sharing and reuse. A focus on innovation and quality of solutions should be evident from their contributions in previous professional roles or projects.
As part of the Reference Data group within Athena Trade & Risk Services, your role will be to design and deliver technical products aimed at making the usage and discovery of reference data across different asset classes a seamless experience. You will work directly with line of business software engineers to understand business use cases, formulate problem statements, and be responsible for the full pipeline of software delivery. You will build relationships with internal clients and take full ownership of software delivery to assist with business migrations to the Athena platform. You should be a self-sufficient developer comfortable tackling new and complex problem sets. Prior experience with Reference Data is preferable, but more important is the ability to quickly grasp new concepts and flows and back that up with robust, high-quality, maintainable, and reusable code.
Key Responsibilities

• Develop robust, high-performance software products and APIs, and enhance existing applications using the Athena Platform. Align development with the overall Athena Reference Data convergence strategy.
• Work directly with line of business developers to gather requirements, understand business context, and translate this into a set of work items for delivery.
• Be responsible for the entire software development lifecycle: requirement gathering, design, implementation, testing, and handover to line of business teams.
• Enhance the team by demonstrating best practices throughout the software development lifecycle: testing, code review, accurate status reporting, focus on application resilience, and "operability".

Required Attributes

• Professional Python (or other Object-Oriented Language (Java, C++)) experience with a proven track record of high-quality successful delivery.
• Proven wide-ranging technical experience demonstrating a genuine interest in technical products and problem-solving.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to integrate into a cross-region team.

Preferred Attributes

• Experience building real-time data pipelines.
• Experience with cloud compute and data storage (e.g. Lambda, AWS Aurora).
• Experience with ecosystems similar to Athena/Python (e.g. Quartz, SecDB).
• Knowledge of the products traded in capital markets (e.g. bonds, stocks) and business processes.
• Knowledge of vendor systems used in the banking industry (e.g. Bloomberg).

Our Corporate & Investment Bank relies on innovators like you to build and maintain the technology that helps us safely service the world's important corporations, governments, and institutions. You'll develop solutions for a bank entrusted with holding $18 trillion of assets and $393 billion in deposits. CIB provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk, and extends liquidity in markets spanning over 100 countries around the world.
When you work at JPMorgan Chase & Co., you're not just working at a global financial institution. You're an integral part of one of the world's biggest tech companies. In 14 technology hubs worldwide, our team of 40,000+ technologists design, build, and deploy everything from enterprise technology initiatives to big data and mobile solutions, as well as innovations in electronic payments, cybersecurity, machine learning, and cloud development. Our $9.5B+ annual investment in technology enables us to hire people to create innovative solutions that will not only transform the financial services industry but also change the world.
At JPMorgan Chase & Co., we value the unique skills of every employee, and we're building a technology organization that thrives on diversity. We encourage professional growth and career development and offer competitive benefits and compensation. If you're looking to build your career as part of a global technology team tackling big challenges that impact the lives of people and companies all around the world, we want to meet you.
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.