Sr Lead Software Engineer (Athena)

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level. A good knowledge of Investment Banking and Markets is highly desirable but a thirst for knowledge and the knack to apply that knowledge is just as good to us.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Banking's Athena Trade Risk & Services team, you will build the next generation of trade structuring tools and components needed by teams across Markets and used globally by our trading desks and support teams. You will work closely with our Athena Trade Risk & Services function, as a member of a highly skilled, agile development team. There will be a high degree of teamwork and technical peer interaction involved.

Job responsibilities

• 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
• Works on JP Morgan flagship technology product, Athena, which is one of the largest Python code bases in the world (50+ million lines of code).
• 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
• Gains exposure to Pricing, Risk and Trade Management functions by working closely with business users
• 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
• Work closely with Quantitative Researchers to model and implement risk analytics and calculations across myriad of fixed income products
• Develop both front end trader facing tools to visualize risk/pnl analytics and back end feeds for critical regulatory and back office reporting and sign-offs

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts  with a focus on Python.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s)-python, java 
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
• Practical cloud native experience

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Familiarity with modern front-end technologies: React.JS, JQuery, GraphQL
• Exposure to cloud technologies, primarily AWS
• Fixed Income Risk/PnL analytics, integration and support
• Experience interacting with and solutioning with Front/Middle Office stakeholders
• Previous experience using Quartz, SecDB, Athena