Lead Software Engineer - SQL/Python/Databricks

As a Lead Software Engineer within the JP Morgan Credit Risk Technology organization, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

Job responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems

• Participate in and leads the modernization and upgrade of the Credit Risk technology stack in accordance with the industry best practices

• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others

• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems

• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture

• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies

• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 3+ years applied experience

• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability

• Advanced proficiency in Java or Python

• Strong knowledge of relational databases/ Transact SQL (Oracle/Sybase/SQL Server)

• Strong Knowledge of Databricks

• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages

• Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Business Intelligence Tools (Tableau/Business Objects/ThoughtSpot)

• Kafka Messaging

• Scala, Apache Spark