Software Engineering – JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. – Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires

The Credit Tech/ATRS team is looking for a Software Engineer Lead to work within the high priority strategic Application Modernization program. As an experienced Software Engineer, your mission would be to lead a team of innovators and technologists in Buenos Aires focused towards creating next-level solutions improving the way the business is run. Your deep knowledge of design, analytics, development, coding, testing and application programming will help teams raise their game, meeting standards, as well as satisfying both business and functional requirements. Your expertise in various technology domains will be counted on to set strategic direction and solve complex and mission critical problems, internally and externally. Your quest to embracing leading-edge technologies and methodologies inspires teams to follow suit.

This role requires a wide variety of strengths and capabilities, including:

Responsibilities:

• Modernization of Athena, the firm’s proprietary trade and risk management system for the Credit, Public Finance and ATRS business.
• Play a key role in the Cybersecurity transformation program uplifting applications to comply with strategic security standards.
• Responsible for the execution of strategic data center migration programs in multiple regions.
• Focus on innovative transformation of the firm’s critical business functions to execute successfully on virtualized compute and cloud.
• Support and maintain the infrastructure for a large application estate that spans across multiple region and datacenters.
• Enhance monitoring to support early detection of issues to reduce recovery time for production incidents.

• Adopt infrastructure as a service with the migration of application assets to virtual servers.

Qualifications/Technical expertise:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field of study or equivalent relevant experience
• 10+ Years of significant programming experience in one or more of the following: Java, Python
• Database – SQL, Oracle, Sybase, KDB
• CI / CD pipelines and tool sets like Jenkins, Groovy, Team City, Bit Bucket
• Monitoring tools like Grafana, Splunk, Datadog, DynaTrace.
• Container and Orchestration software like Docker, Kubernetes.
• Experience working on RHEL Linux OS with hands-on knowledge on unix commands and shell scripting.
• Experience designing, developing, or maintaining production-grade cloud solutions in Cloud ecosystems such as Amazon Web Services.

Professional skills

• Excellent written & verbal communication skills. Ability to interact professionally with a diverse group of technology resources, including developers, business analysts, project managers, support teams, ECN vendors and senior management.
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, high-pressure delivery environment
• Strong interpersonal, teamwork and influencing skills
• Structured and logical approach to problem solving, with strong attention to detail
• Must be capable to proactively drive own workload, with minimal management oversight
• Strong work ethic, self-starter who is creative with a ‘can-do’ attitude
• Experience with geographically distributed teams
• Experience with issue tracking in management tools – JIRA
• Strong technical analysis skills
• Hands-on experience with Lean and Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban
• Experience leading a team of engineers

Preferred experience

• Knowledge of Fixed Income business and applications
• Experience with electronic trading applications

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 on the basis of 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.