Lead Software Engineer- Front-End Continuous Integration

Job Description

At JP Morgan Chase, we understand that customers seek exceptional value and a seamless experience from a trusted financial institution. That's why we launched Chase UK to transform digital banking with intuitive and enjoyable customer journeys. With a strong foundation of trust established by millions of customers in the US, we have been rapidly expanding our presence in the UK and soon across Europe. We have been building the bank of the future from the ground up, offering you the chance to join us and make a significant impact.

As a Vice President at JPMorgan Chase within the International Consumer Bank, you will play a crucial role in this initiative, dedicated to delivering an outstanding banking experience to our customers. You will work in a collaborative environment as part of a diverse, inclusive, and geographically distributed team. We are seeking individuals with a curious mindset and a keen interest in new technology. Our engineers are naturally solution-oriented and possess an interest in the financial sector and focus on addressing our customer needs. We work in teams focused on building the iOS and Android Mobile application focussing on the design, architecture and maintenance of the build and infrastructure solutions along with entire SDLC stages and will be liasing with cross functional teams on driving the future tool landscapes used by development team.

Job responsibilities

• Build solutions that avoid single points of failure, using scalable architectural patterns.
• Facilitate cross-functional team collaboration to implement reliable build and infrastructure tool.
• Structure software so that it is easy to understand, test and evolve.
• Proactively identify potential issues with build infrastructure, fix issues and ensure the tool chain is resilient.
• Identify and implement development requirements in CI tooling using Jenkins declarative pipelines.
• Identify Key Performance Indicators (KPI), generate metrics to identify the efficiency, reliability and ease of operation of our system and drive improvements through.
• Maintain the Continuous Integration (CI) framework (Cloudbees based) used by all developers in Front End development team and infrastructure cluster using AWS instances, docker & K8s framework.
• Make improvements in the resiliency and developer experience of the Release Management frameworks used by Front End Team.
• Conduct thorough testing to ensure robustness and reliability of build infra tools.
• Lead the migration of SCM/CI tooling to GitHub and actions.
• Support the products you've built through their entire lifecycle, including in production and during incident management

Required qualifications, capabilities & skills

• Formal training or certification on continuous integration concepts and proficient advanced experience
• Experience in managing continuous integration and automation tool chains.
• Experience in development, maintenance and administration of Continuous Integration (CI) Systems
• Hand-On experience on working with declarative pipelines and guiding development team on implementing effective infrastructure as code.
• Experience in coding and debugging using bash, Python or other scripting languages.
• Understanding of AWS based builds cluster maintained from AMI Images, EC2 instances and Autoscaling Groups).
• Experience in leading projects on migration of Scource Code management and continuous integration tooling with knowledge of working with GitHub and Actions.
• Experience in guiding development team on build systems using either of the of the builds tools – Make, CMake, Maven, Xcode, Swift.
• Ability to focus on promptly addressing customer needs even on repetitive tasks.
• Experience on supporting development team using Linux, Mac.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

Preferred qualifications, capabilities & skills

• Experience in identifying risk with build toolchains to influence the decision of new tool onboarding, related to Continuous integration or any developer tooling.
• Awareness of build tools used with Android / iOS / React Native development.
• Experience in development, maintenance and administration of Continuous Integration (CI) Systems (preferably Jenkins / Cloudbees)
• Supporting build system on projects partially or fully using TypeScript
• Release Management Experience and driving improvements through automations.

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

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.