Python Software Engineer

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $2.5 trillion and operations worldwide. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small business, commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase & Co. serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Information about JPMorgan Chase & Co. is available at www.jpmorganchase.com .

The Corporate Technology (CT) organization develops applications and provides technology support for corporate functions across JPMorgan Chase, including Global Finance, Corporate Treasury, Risk Management, Human Resources, Compliance, Legal, and all functions within the Corporate Administrative Office (CAO).

CT teams are aligned with corporate partners' evolving technology needs and the firm's ever expanding technology controls agenda.

A top CT priority is building scalable corporate systems. Teams focus on:

· Responding to the evolving regulatory environment and helping to meet the firm's regulatory commitments by addressing internal and external commitments.
· Advancing the firm's Roadmap programs -- Single Sourcing of data, Architecture Convergence, and Rationalization of Platforms.
· Adopting industry leading technologies to support best-in-class business capabilities for high performance computing and data storage solutions.
· Driving innovation across the firm's corporate technology portfolio, increasing efficiencies through process automation, and Agile application development, with an emphasis on user experience and shorter development cycles.
· Investing in security & controls for cyber, access/entitlements uplift, data protection and application resiliency.

Strategic Forecasting Program (SFP) is a multi-year initiative to design, build and implement a multi-dimensional forecasting platform that will serve multiple functions and stakeholders and cover the entire balance sheet and P&L. The platform will support all lines of businesses and Corporate with highly flexible infrastructure to implement and execute various analytics models. It will also provide distributed calculation and centralized consolidation, aggregation and further downstream calculations required for various reporting requirements.

As a Python Applications Developer , you will work with business and IT partners to understand the requirements, and be will be responsible for designing, developing, testing and documenting functionality to satisfy requirements of one ore more user areas.

Responsibilities include :

· Create technical design recommendations for developing and integrating programs per written specifications.
· Perform unit testing and system integration testing of the newly developed functionality.
· Help set development standards in areas of best practices, code quality, test coverage, monitoring, logging, exception management, and others.
· Conduct code reviews on components and applications to ensure adherence to the development standards and best practices.
· Collaborate and build relationships with other development teams, operate and operations partners, and business clients.

Desired profile

·  3+ years of Application Development experience.
·  1+ years of advanced Python skills (deep understanding of language internals, profiling, best practices).
·  Very good understanding of object oriented design patterns and Python idioms; software engineering background a plus.
·  Experience working with Big Data technologies would be considered a plus.

·  Experience with high performance computing, grid computing, distributed data caches and risk pricing.
·  Knowledge of version and revision control practices and procedures.
·  Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.