Senior Lead Software Engineer - Python
JPMorgan Chase2 days ago
Glasgow, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain Python tooling, services, and automation for Athena Rates platform delivery and operations.
- Provide infrastructure guidance and enablement tooling for developers and quantitative teams.
- Design and evolve APIs and interfaces for downstream application integrations.
- Perform capacity planning, performance analysis, modernization, migrations, and operating system, middleware, and library upgrades.
- Remediate certificate, credential, and access issues using secure, repeatable automation.
- Improve platform hygiene, environment controls, database guardrails, and operational reliability.
- Support third-line production incidents through rapid mitigation, root-cause analysis, and long-term remediation.
- Use enterprise-authorized AI coding tools for development, testing, refactoring, and documentation while validating outputs through review and secure engineering practices.
- Coordinate across teams and component owners to deliver outcomes and contribute to infrastructure cost and efficiency management.
Requirements
- Advanced production-grade Python software engineering experience.
- Strong Linux systems knowledge, including performance, processes, services, and networking troubleshooting.
- Experience with controlled production changes such as migrations, upgrades, platform hygiene, and automation.
- Experience diagnosing complex production issues end to end, including stabilization and root-cause remediation.
- Experience partnering with developers and production stakeholders to deliver enablement tooling and operating guidance.
- Experience designing or supporting APIs and integrations for engineering or quantitative teams.
- Understanding of responsible AI use, data sensitivity, secure input and output handling, resiliency, and security expectations.
- Hands-on experience using enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools.
- Working knowledge of SQL and familiarity with multiple data technologies, including in-memory patterns.
- Strong ownership, problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional coordination skills.
- Preferred experience with legacy integration modernization, Red Hat Enterprise Linux upgrades, database hygiene tooling, secure credential management, batch scheduling or compute-grid platforms, AWS and hybrid estates, daily AI tooling, and cyber-resilience modernization portfolios.
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.