Senior Lead Software Engineer - Post Trade

Be an integral part of a technology team that's responsible for running a critical and large legacy platform, and lead the way to transform it.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Banking team, you are an integral part of an agile team that is responsible to enhance, build, and own US Broker Dealer Platform which is critical to many of our businesses. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of technical and functional challenges that span legacy and new technology stacks.

Job responsibilities

• Leads a large legacy technology platform, but with an objective to propose and lead the transformation agenda
• Collaborates with other business units to align technology initiatives
• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others 
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus 
• Adds to the 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
• Extensive experience in the technology sector, particularly within financial services.
• Proven track record of leading technology projects and teams.
• Post Trade Knowledge – Specifically Trade Processing, Affirmation/Confirmation, Settlement, Positions & Balance Management, Accounting is essential.
• Experience managing high volume real-time and complex EOD systems.
• Strong analytical/problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strategic thinker with a focus on innovation

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Exposure to Broad ridge BPS platform.
• Previous roles in technology management and software development in Mainframe-COBOL, DB2, CICS preferred 
• End to End Trade life cycle knowledge, covering Prime Broker or Wealth Management clients is preferred.
• Prior experience in leading a large-scale Mainframe platform and/or legacy modernization is preferred.
• Current platforms are legacy (Mainframe, COBOL, DB2, CICS) in nature. Prior exposure to Mainframe is a plus
• Distributed(Java, Python) and cloud technology (AWS, Azure) exposure would be a plus.