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Director of Software Engineering, Equity Derivatives Pre-Trade Platform Lead (London)

London
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Posted Yesterday

If you are a software engineering leader ready to take the reins and drive impact, weve got an opportunity just for you.As a Director of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Bank Global Equity Derivatives Sales Technology team, you will lead a technical area and promote impact across teams, technologies, and projects within various departments. You will leverage your extensive knowledge of software, applications, technical processes, and product management to oversee multiple complex projects and initiatives, acting as the primary decision maker for your teams and fostering innovation and solution delivery. In your role as the Platform Lead for EVO, our strategic pre-trade Derivatives Sales platform, you will manage the core platform supporting all pre-trade activities for the Flow, Delta One, European Exchange Traded Products, Global Warrants, and Structured Derivatives businesses. The EVO suite handles high and low-touch pricing and quoting, trade capture, post-trade lifecycle event management, and feeds downstream systems including accounting and legal documentation. It encompasses a range of products from high-volume listed derivatives to complex over-the-counter securitized structured derivatives. Derivatives are a significant growth area for JP Morgans Markets franchise, and EVO is set for substantial investment in the coming years to enhance and expand our market-leading position in this sector.Job responsibilitiesManages a globally distributed agile team who work to build, enhance, deliver and support the core platform that underpins all of EVO.Delivers high-quality solutions in an investment bank or other fast-paced industry where first class solutions with five 9s uptime are the norm.Works with key stakeholders in Sales, Trading, QR, Operations and others to ensure the EVO platform meets business requirements.Works with other EDG Sales Technology Team leads to ensure the EVO platform meets their needs.Leads the EVO Core Team globally, ensuring that they deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way.Leads and directly contribute towards the ongoing efforts to re-engineer and re-architect the EVO platform to make it truly highly available, stable, efficient, and scalable.Leads and contribute towards the ongoing efforts to migrate EVO to public cloud.Develops junior members of the team from the perspective of career progression and technical ability.Manages Cost and budget for the EVO core platform constantly reviewing compute, storage and other infrastructure costs, and planning future needs.Leads the effort and contribute towards the identification and implementation of opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues, with aim of improving overall operational stability of software applications and systems.Guides evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture.Required qualifications, capabilities, and skillsFormal training or certification on software engineering concepts and expert applied experience. In addition, advanced experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problemsExpert proficiency with the Java programming language. The platform uses a range of technologies including Java, C#/WPF, Python,React, JavaScriptand Cassandra on Windows and Linux platforms.Excellent analytical skills (i.e. problem solving)Disciplined approach to code management, testing and deployment practices.Advanced understanding of Agile development methodologies, CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Application SecurityCommercial experience developing with and using NoSQL database systems (Cassandra, MongoDB, etc.)Experience building and maintaining a microservices architecture.Experience in leading an agile delivery team leveraging scrum, sprint planning, retrospectives and reporting progress to senior stakeholders.Hands-on practical experience delivering enterprise level system design, application development, testing, and operational stabilityProven experience in successfully integrating new technology into large-scale applications with measurable improvements in performance, scalability, and user experience while minimizing disruption to existing operationsExpertise in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical fieldPreferred qualifications, capabilities, and skillsExperience of working in a front office environment within financial servicesExpert knowledge of CassandraKnowledge of C#/WPF, Python, Typescript, and React#J-18808-Ljbffr

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