Sr Lead Software Engineer – Data Engineering, Python/C++/KDB/AI

Location: LONDON, LONDON, United Kingdom

Join a dynamic, global analytics team within JPMorgan Chase’s Commercial & Investment Bank, Electronic Trading Technology. 

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Commercial & Investment Bank, Electronic Trading Technology, you will play a pivotal role in designing and delivering high-performance, scalable solutions that power real-time trading and research in a fast-paced financial environment. We seek candidates with strong expertise in any of Python/KDB/C++, and who can leverage their knowledge of AI to drive innovation in data engineering, analytics, and automation.

Experience leveraging AI in development, analytics, or SDLC use cases is a critical enabler for this role. 

Job Responsibilities

• Lead technical initiatives across global analytics teams, providing guidance and direction to engineers, contractors, and vendors in a high-velocity environment.
• Design, build, and optimize real-time data processing pipelines and applications ensuring reliability and performance for mission-critical financial systems.
• Leverage AI technologies and techniques to enhance data engineering workflows, automate SDLC processes, and deliver advanced analytics capabilities for trading and research.
• Collaborate with research and trading teams worldwide to onboard new datasets efficiently and consistently, supporting global business needs.
• Build and support robust tools and frameworks for quantitative research and production trading, including scalable APIs and analytics libraries.
• Mentor and develop team members, manage book of work, and drive continuous improvement in SDLC, testing, and coding standards across distributed teams.
• Influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations/processes to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving financial landscape.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in Python, KDB/Q, data engineering, and AI, contributing to firmwide best practices and technical excellence.
• Champion diversity, inclusion, and collaboration within large, global teams.

 

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• 5+ years of applied experience in software engineering, in large-scale, fast-paced financial environments.
• Hands-on experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability for analytics-driven teams.
• Strong expertise in any of Python/KDB/C++, for real-time data processing, application development, or data engineering.
• Working knowledge of AI technologies (machine learning, generative AI, etc.) to support data engineering, analytics, or SDLC automation.
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods; advanced understanding of agile methodologies (CI/CD, Application Resiliency, Security).
• Experience leading and mentoring teams in a global, collaborative environment.
• Ability to tackle complex design and functionality problems independently and drive solutions across distributed teams.
• Academic background in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field.

 

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Experience with market data venue and vendor data platforms.
• AWS experience; practical cloud native/cloud experience is a plus.
• Experience with Terraform and Kubernetes for managing production environments in public cloud.
• Strong knowledge and experience in FIX, Market Data, Analytics, OMS, and equities trading in global markets are assets.
• Knowledge of machine learning, statistical techniques, and related libraries.

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.

About the Organization

J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world. Join our team as a Data Platform Engineer to develop our next-generation Python platform for historical and real-time market data.