Lead Software Engineer - Python and Databricks
Aumni
Software Engineering
Glasgow, UK
Posted on Jul 4, 2025
Lead Software Engineer - Python and Databricks
GLASGOW, LANARKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Job Information
- Job Identification 210638796
- Job Category Software Engineering
- Business Unit Commercial & Investment Bank
- Posting Date 07/04/2025, 06:37 PM
- Locations 315 Argyle Street, Glasgow, Glasgow City, G2 8AT, GB
- Job Schedule Full time
Job Description
We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Global Banking, Data, Analytics & Technology division, you will play a vital role in an agile team dedicated to enhancing, developing, and delivering innovative technology products that prioritize security, stability, and scalability. Your position as a key technical contributor involves executing essential technology solutions across various technical domains within diverse business functions, all designed to support the firm's strategic goals.
Job responsibilities
- Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
- Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
- Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
- Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
- Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on Databricks concepts and proficient advanced experience
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced in one or more programming language(s), Python is required
- Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
- Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
- Experience performing data analytics on AWS platforms
- Experience in writing efficient SQL's, implementing complex ETL transformations on big data platform.
- Experience in a Big Data technologies (Spark, Impala, Hive, Redshift, Kafka, etc.)
- Experience in data quality testing; adept at writing test cases and scripts, presenting and resolving data issues
- Experience with Databricks, Snowflake, Iceberg are required
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience in application and data design disciplines with an emphasis on real-time processing and delivery e.g. Kafka is preferable
- Understanding of the Commercial & Investment Bank business will be useful.
- Proficiency across the full range of database and business intelligence tools; publishing and presenting information in an engaging way is a plus
- Financial Services and Commercial and Investment Banking experience is a plus
- Familiarity with NoSQL database platforms(DynamoDB, Cassandra) is a plus
- Familiarity with relational database environment (Oracle, SQL Server, etc.) leveraging databases, tables/views, stored procedures, agent jobs, etc.
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.
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