Software Engineer III - Java/Python/AWS

You’re ready to gain the skills and experience needed to grow within your role and advance your career — and we have the perfect software engineering opportunity for you. The Markets Data Analytics Lake is an AWS Data Lake implementation built and owned by Corporate and Investment Bank Markets Technology that provides ingestion, transformation, cataloging, and consumption tooling for other technical teams across Corporate and Investment Bank Markets Technology. The team designs, authors, and implements data processing patterns for consumption and implementation by other technical teams across the Corporate and Investment Bank Markets technology landscape. As part of the Markets Data Lake & Markets Data Analytics platform team, you will work on integrating a blend of AWS technologies (AWS Kinesis, AWS MSK, AWS Glue, AWS EMR, AWS Redshift, and AWS Lake Formation) with the proprietary JPMC Athena trading platform to deliver AWS data management & processing capabilities directly to front office and quantitative research users.

As a Software Engineer III at JPMorgan Chase within Corporate and Investment Bank Markets Technology, you will be part of the Markets Data Lake & Markets Data Analytics platform team. You will work on integrating a blend of Amazon Web Services technologies with the proprietary JPMorgan Chase Athena trading platform to deliver AWS data management and processing capabilities directly to front office and quantitative research users. This role provides an opportunity to execute software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting, while contributing to software engineering communities of practice and exploring new and emerging technologies.

Job responsibilities

• Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems 
• Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems 
• Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development 
• Gathers, analyzes, synthesizes, and develops visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems 
• Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture 
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies 

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 
• Development experience in Java and/or Python 
• Experience working with any tool (terraform) to provision AWS cloud services 
• Experience of AWS Glue, AWS Athena & AWS S3 
• Knowledge of Apache Parquet & open table formats such as Delta, Iceberg & Hudi 
• Test Driven Development experience in using JUnit, Mojito or similar 
• Extensive knowledge and work experience with distributed system and massively parallel processing 
• 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 
• Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.) 

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills 

• Experience with big data technologies 
• Familiarity with message bus technologies such as Kafka or AMPS and query engines such as AWS Athena & Redshift 
• Knowledge with AWS Lake Formation 
• Experience in financial industry