What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Principal eSoftware Engineer-Equity Derivatives Exchange Connectivity Lead position at JPMorgan Chase?
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As a Sr Principal eSoftware Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Bank specifically as a part of the EDG Execution Technology team. The role involves leadership, technical expertise, and problem-solving abilities to create and deliver high-quality technology products. The position is based in either New York or New Jersey and involves managing a team of 7 engineers located in Athens, India, and New Jersey. The role also involves strategic decision-making and developing a global derivatives exchange connectivity platform.
Job Responsibilities:
- Provide strong technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors. Your leadership will be crucial in making key architectural decisions, not only within the exchange layer but also within the wider trading stack.
- Form strong partnerships with other groups within derivatives, cash, and wider areas, mapping out opportunities for technology synergies. Your ability to influence and collaborate will be key to driving innovation and efficiency.
- Ensure that solutions are fully compliant with critical global regulatory reporting, surveillance, and control mandates as they evolve. Your leadership will ensure adherence to compliance standards and best practices.
- Develop secure and high-quality production code, and review and debug code written by others. Your leadership will foster a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.
- Drive decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes. Your leadership will shape the future of technology within the organization.
- Serve as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus, actively contributing to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle.
- Influence peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies. Your leadership will champion innovation and the adoption of new technologies.
- Add to the team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect. Your leadership will promote a positive and inclusive work environment.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Formal training or certification on C concepts and 10 years applied experience.
- Hands-on practical C experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
- Proficiency in C on Unix/Linux operating systems.
- Scripting skills to automate day-to-day development and testing tasks.
- Excellent understanding of software and hardware interaction.
- Expertise in application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines.
- Strong computer science fundamentals such as multithreading, object-oriented development.
- Ability to work closely with various teams including Application Development, Business Analyst & Operations.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- BS degree, preferably in Computer Science / Engineering or similar degree.
- Experience in designing and developing low latency applications using C and C.
- Experience in configuring, testing, and integrating C applications into a Linux environment.
- Design, develop, test, and support various Market Access trading and risk management modules in C/C .
- Working knowledge of FIX protocol.
- Experience in low latency connectivity to Futures and Options markets e.g., US Options Exchanges, CME, and ICE.
- Order management experience with Multileg products in Futures and Options products.
