Senior Principal Software Engineer - Fusion Data Management

JPMorgan Chase & Co.
London
4 months ago
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Job Description

We're looking for a tech leader ready to take their career to new heights. Join the ranks of top talent at one of the world's most influential companies.

As a Senior Principal Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Fusion Data Management Team, you will provide deep engineering expertise and work across agile teams to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading Entity Mastering & Management Technology in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Leverage your deep expertise to consistently challenge the status quo, innovate for business impact, lead the strategic development of this new functional offering within the Fusion product, and remain at the forefront of industry trends, best practices, and technological advances.

Fusion is a cloud-native data technology solution that provides data management, analytics and reporting for institutional investors. Fusion builds on J.P. Morgan's global operating model and rich data foundation as an industry-leading Securities Services provider to deliver benefits of scale and reduce costs. You will be spearheading the development of a cutting-edge entity mastering and management solution for our flagship data management product. We are seeing a visionary technology leader with deep expertise in data management and a passion for building best-in-class solutions for our clients.

Job Responsibilities

  1. Leads the scalable, high-performance architecture of the entity mastering solution, ensuring it meets product-specific requirements and provides economies of scale.
  2. Provides technical leadership and guidance to a team of senior engineers, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment.
  3. Leads the development and implementation of advanced data engineering techniques to enable seamless data ingestion, materialisation, consolidation, data management and distribution.
  4. Influences across business, peers, product, and technology teams and successfully manages senior stakeholder relationships.
  5. Translates highly complex technical issues, trends, and approaches to leadership to drive the firm's innovation.
  6. Drives adoption and implementation of technical methods in specialized fields in line with the latest product development methodologies.
  7. Creates durable, reusable software frameworks that are leveraged across teams and functions.
  8. Champions the firm's culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

  1. Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and expert applied experience. Expertise in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
  2. Hands-on experience building enterprise-scale reference data or security master management software.
  3. Extensive experience in data engineering, data integration, and building data management solutions.
  4. Practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
  5. Expertise in one or more programming languages, preferably Java; distributed compute, preferably Apache Spark.
  6. Experience with high-performance table formats, e.g., Apache Iceberg; proficiency in different databases.
  7. Expertise in distributed event streaming platforms, e.g., Kafka; experience building microservices as containerized applications.
  8. Expertise in building real-time or near real-time software handling extremely high volumes.
  9. Demonstrated prior experience with influencing across functions and leading teams of high-performing engineers.
  10. Extensive practical cloud-native experience, e.g., AWS.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

  1. Cloud certification.
  2. Experience with Kubernetes.
  3. Experience with reference data vendors.

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.

About the Team

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.

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