Sr Lead Software Engineer Commodities UK
JPMorgan Chase2 months ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Provide technical guidance to engineering teams, contractors, vendors, and business stakeholders.
- Develop, test, review, debug, and operate secure, high-quality applications for global commodities trading desks.
- Liaise with Product and Financial Controllers to elicit reporting requirements and resolve reporting and system issues.
- Drive decisions affecting product design, application functionality, technical operations, and engineering processes.
- Lead adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices and agentic development pipelines, including validation standards for correctness, performance, and security.
- Serve as a subject matter expert and advocate for firmwide software development lifecycle frameworks, tools, and practices.
Requirements
- Formal software engineering training or certification and advanced applied experience.
- Experience working with front-office trading desks and business users such as Product and Financial Controllers.
- High proficiency in Python and advanced ability in one or more programming languages.
- Experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
- Strong understanding of Risk and PnL reporting infrastructure paradigms and systems.
- Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools and validating their outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
- Understanding of responsible AI use, data sensitivity, secure input and output handling, resiliency, and security controls.
- Experience using agentic development pipelines and practical cloud-native experience.
- Ability to independently solve complex design and functionality problems with little to no oversight.
- Preferred qualifications include Athena or comparable Python risk-management platform experience, commodities and derisking domain knowledge, front-office Risk and PnL reporting experience, and familiarity with AI development pipelines.
About JPMorgan Chase
JPMorgan Chase provides consumer and commercial banking, payments, credit card, wealth management, and corporate and investment banking services to individuals, businesses, institutions, and governments. The public company (NYSE: JPM) earns revenue from interest, fees, trading, and asset management across operations in more than 100 markets. Headquartered in New York City with roots dating to 1799, it serves retail customers and prominent corporate and government clients through brands including Chase and J.P. Morgan.