Devops, Integration Specialist for Electronic Trading - Senior Lead Software Engineer

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Jersey City, NJ +1 · Commercial & Investment Bank

Senior Lead Software Engineer for JPMorgan Chase's Equities Electronic Trading team, focusing on DevOps and integration. The role involves developing and maintaining continuous integration environments, automating testing processes, integrating trading systems, managing releases, and providing production support. Requires strong programming skills (Unix scripting, Python, Java), scripting for automation, and experience with cloud-native technologies. Electronic trading exposure is preferred.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop and implement a framework for continuous integration environments, driving its adoption and evolution.
  2. Automate testing processes and any manual workflows to enhance efficiency and accuracy.
  3. Integrate with various trading front office, middle office and back office system
  4. Manage release processes, provide environment support, and offer production support as needed.
  5. Conduct client, venue certification, and connectivity for various exchanges, markets, and dark pools.

Skills

Required

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts
  • 5+ years applied experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
  • Advanced knowledge of Unix scripting, Python, and Java programming languages for Automation, Monitoring and Surveillance
  • Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes
  • Scripting skills to automate day-to-day development and testing and integration tasks (Shell/Perl/Python)
  • Creating and automating Test Strategies/Test Plans based on functional Testing and non-functional requirements and Executing them
  • Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
  • Practical cloud native experience
  • Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

Nice to have

  • Electronic trading exposure with knowledge in trading protocols such as FIX
  • Knowledge of Equities Trading Stack – Order Management Systems, ALGO, Smart Order Routers, Dark Pools, Equities exchange protocols
  • Knowledge of kdb/q