Sr. Manager for Software Engineering

Organization Description

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 that help the bank provide strategic advice, raise capital, manage Risk, and extend liquidity in markets spanning over 100 countries around the world.

Employer Description

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 based on 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. In accordance with applicable law, we make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental health or physical disability needs.

About Commodities Line Of Business

The Global Commodities business spans over the globe (North America, EMEA, Asia Pacific) and does business in Oil, Gas, Power, Emissions, & Metals (both base and precious) in both Exchange Traded markets as well as Over the Counter markets. The desks trade both financially settled as well as physically settled products.

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level.

As a Senior Manager of Software Engineering, you will be leading a team of brilliant engineers to plan, design and implement engineering solutions to various problems. You will get opportunity challenged to provide the most innovative solution. You need to be an out of the box thinker. You will be 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.

You are responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

Job responsibilities

• Problem solving – given a problem statement find out and evaluate alternatives, plan, and build quick POC, present it to broader team and stakeholders.
• Lead a group of engineers to provide innovative engineering design and solution to various challenging problems.
• 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.
• Participate and develop to create an intuitive user experience at the front end.
• 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.
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.
• Improves experience for trading, operations developing intuitive user interfaces and performant back ends.
• Work with QR (Quantitative Research) group as well as other technical partners in a collaborative environment.
• Partner with many groups both upstream and downstream with varied priorities. Communication is the key here.
• Drives and executes within the strategy of macro technology, of which commodities is one section (aligning with rates and FX technology peers).

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Math or equivalent or relevant experience.
• Leadership skills – plan, delegate, resolve conflicts and lead a group of engineers through the different phases of the project.
• Quick learning abilities – Athena is Graph based enterprise system. You need to learn Athena quickly to become productive in shortest possible time.
• Hands-on practical experience in any enterprise system in developing robust backend codes.
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s) (Python, C++ and / or Java). Python knowledge is a big plus.
• Willingness to become proficient and develop in Python if not already a primary language.
• Knowledgeable in automation and continuous delivery methods.
• Knowledgeable in the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Prior track record of delivery within risk management in financial services.
• Ability to collaborate with and influence other technology teams to deliver end to end solutions to the business in a constantly changing environment.
• Knowledgeable in agile development.

Preferable qualifications

• Software development experience in Commodities, Finance, or Investment banking preferred, or willingness to learn the business domain.
• Knowledge of Athena, Quartz, SecDb or equivalent platforms preferred.
• Concept of Risk, Markets – any knowledge in commodities markets is a plus.
• Expertise in python, pandas, NumPy, SciPy is a plus.