Lead Software Engineer - DevOps Specialist - Electronic Trading Integration

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Commercial & Investment Bank - Markets Technology, 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

• 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
• Develop Python-based automation, tooling, and platform integrations
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines
• Deploy and support cloud-native applications on AWS and Kubernetes
• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools
• Improve platform reliability, observability, scalability, and operational efficiency
• Integrate trading applications, FIX platforms, and market-facing systems
• Partner with engineering and trading technology teams to automate and modernize infrastructure
• Drive DevOps best practices across development and operations teams
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Strong  DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE, Cloud Engineering, or Software Engineering experience
• Advanced Python programming skills
• Strong Linux/Unix administration and troubleshooting expertise. Strong Bash/Shell scripting experience
• Hands-on CI/CD pipeline development (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Bamboo, etc.)
• AWS cloud experience
• Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, or similar container technologies. Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible)
• Strong understanding of networking, distributed systems, and application resiliency
• Experience supporting highly available production platforms
• Electronic trading or front-office trading technology experience
• Working knowledge of FIX Protocol, market connectivity, and order lifecycle workflows

 Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• OMS / EMS platforms. Exchange connectivity
• Capital Markets
• QuickFIX / QuickFIX-J
• Low-latency or algorithmic trading systems
• Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Datadog, Geneos
• Java or C++