Manager of Software Engineering - Web and Java

at  JPMorganChase

JOB DESCRIPTION

This is your chance to change the path of your career and guide a high performing software engineering team to success at one of the world’s leading financial institutions.
As a Manager of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within the CIB Payments Liquidity and Account Solutions Technology team, you lead a software engineering team and manage day-to-day implementation activities by identifying and escalating issues and ensuring your team’s work adheres to compliance standards, business requirements, and tactical best practices.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS, CAPABILITIES, AND SKILLS

• Experience in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field and expertise in technology disciplines
• Experience leading technology projects and managing technologists
• Proficient in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle (e.g. sprint planning, sprint ceremonies and sprint reporting)
• Advanced understanding of agile scrum methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
• Practical cloud native experience (Kubernetes and AWS preferred)
• Experience of technical architecture, design and managing technical debt and continual improvement

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS, CAPABILITIES, AND SKILLS

• Proficient in coding in one or more object-orientated languages, including Java 17+ with Spring Boot
• Experience of building and testing modern reactive Javascript web user interfaces (e.g. ReactJS)
• Experience of web user interface design (UI/UX design techniques)
• Project management and requirements gathering experience
• Good communication, design and documentation skills
• Hands-on experience with event driven architecture and distributed messaging technologies (e.g. Kafka)
• Experience with Docker and running Production workloads on Kubernetes
• Experience using and designing schemas/data structures in SQL relational databases (e.g. Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, AWS Aurora and CockroachDB)
• Certified Kubernetes knowledge (e.g. CKAD)
• Certified public cloud technology knowledge (e.g. AWS)
• Practical experience of migrating, building and/or maintaining applications running on public cloud infrastructure

ABOUT US

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. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

• Provides guidance to immediate team of software engineers on daily tasks and activities
• Sets the overall guidance and expectations for team output, practices, and collaboration
• Anticipates dependencies with other teams to deliver products and applications in line with business requirements
• Manages stakeholder relationships and the team’s work in accordance with compliance standards, service level agreements, and business requirements
• Creates a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect for the team members and prioritizes diverse representation
• Acts as the Application Owner, helping to ensure technical compliance with applicable rules and regulations
• Drives the full Agile SDLC with the Product Owner and engineer team, delivering consistent quality and sustained velocity
• Liaises with the Product Owner to support the capture and refinement of functional and non-functional requirements for new product features
• Supports the software engineering team with the delivery of new product features and technical change
• Identifies areas of technical improvement and drives the technical change backlog for the application
• Engineering team line manager
• Supports the team with technical Production support and release activities (including out-of-hours)