Lead Software Engineer - Java

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Software Engineering Group, you will be at the forefront of solving business problems through innovation and engineering practices. You will apply your expertise to all aspects of the software development lifecycle and collaborate with stakeholders to achieve common goals. This role offers the opportunity to work in a diverse and thought-provoking environment, encouraging creative solutions that benefit our global customers.

Job Responsibilities:

• Mentor and manage a high-performance delivery team, providing technical direction and ensuring high quality deliverables.
• Hands-on end-to-end project delivery responsibilities.
• Ensure the team delivers timely key milestones supporting a clear roadmap and requirements.
• Clarify and defend architecture and design decisions and ensure they are practical and feasible to implement by the team.
• Partner with technology peers and product owners and lead collaborative efforts to ensure a successful end-to-end project delivery
• Ability to translate functional requirements to technical design and requirements.
• Perform code reviews, develop and review test scenarios in collaboration with QA.

This role requires a wide variety of strengths and capabilities, including:

• Formal training or certification on Java Development concepts and proficient advanced experience
• Mentor and manage a high-performance delivery team, providing technical direction and ensuring high quality deliverables
• Hands-on end-to-end project delivery responsibilities
• Ensure the team delivers timely key milestones supporting a clear roadmap and requirements
• Clarify and defend architecture and design decisions and ensure they are practical and feasible to implement by the team.
• Partner with technology peers and product owners and lead collaborative efforts to ensure a successful end-to-end project delivery
• Translate functional requirements to technical design and requirements
• Perform code reviews, develop and review test scenarios in collaboration with QA
• Strong experience in Core Java, Object Oriented, RDBMS (Oracle), SQL, Spring
• Strong understanding of Agile methodology and ceremonies leveraging SDLC tools to improve development and testing efficiency (JIRA, Jenkins, GIT, JUnit, Selenium, Lint)

'Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• Computer Science degree preferred
• Experience in Cloud and Container based development (Gaia, Kube) is a plus
• Experience using NoSQL is a plus
• Banking and payments domain background is a plus
• Knowledge of container-based development, orchestration, microservices frameworks, and tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Spring Boot, Swagger) is a plus

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.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

ABOUT THE TEAM

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.

Client-provided location(s): Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Job ID: JPMorgan-210666477

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-10-09T19:13:42