What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Manager of Software Engineering -Front office trading position at JPMorgan Chase?
Lead a high-impact engineering team in JPMorganChase’s TCIO Trade Execution Technology. Partner with senior stakeholders to raise engineering standards and automate recurring issues—driving platform stability and business impact across fixed income and derivatives.
As a Manager of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase in the Corporate Technology -Treasury & Chief Investment Office Technology team, you play a pivotal leadership role by providing advanced technology solutions both individually and as a technical coach and mentor to a team of talented and driven software engineers. Leveraging your expertise, you oversee essential technology initiatives across various technical domains within the Trade Execution technology team, supporting the business goals of the Treasury & Chief Investment Office (TCIO).
Job responsibilities
- Provides guidance to the immediate team of software engineers on daily tasks and activities to execute creative software solutions, including design, development, and technical troubleshooting, with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches.
- Develops secure high-quality production code and sets the overall guidance and expectations for team output, practices, and collaboration
- Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
- Anticipates dependencies with other teams and leads evaluation sessions with external vendors and internal teams to drive outcome-oriented designs and ensure applicability within existing systems and information architecture.
- Manages stakeholder relationships and the team’s work in accordance with compliance standards, service level agreements, and business requirements
- Creates a culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect for the team members
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5 years of applied experience
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced in one or more programming language(s)- Java or Python
- Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services (e.g., EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, etc.).
- Experience designing, developing, and deploying scalable applications in cloud environments.
- Familiarity with microservices architecture and RESTful API development is needed .
- Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience with modern monitoring and logging tools (e.g., DataDog, Dynatrace, Splunk).
- Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including product, business management and operations.
Experience with software development best practices, including code reviews, testing, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Familiarity with investment banking products - fixed income and derivatives
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience in architecting large-scale, distributed systems.
- Ability to drive technical strategy and influence engineering best practices across teams.
- Strong stakeholder management and the ability to align technical solutions with business goals.
- Prior experience supporting trade execution platforms