Java Application Developer

JPMorgan Chase & Co . (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $2.6 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 .

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in asset and wealth management services. The Asset Management line of business serves institutional, ultra high net worth, high net worth and retail clients through its Global Investment Management and Global Wealth Management businesses. With client assets of $2.4 trillion and assets under management of $1.7 trillion, we are one of the largest asset and wealth managers in the world.

J.P. Morgan Asset Management (Investment Management) is a leading investment manager of choice for institutions, financial intermediaries and individual investors, worldwide. With a heritage of more than two centuries, a broad range of core and alternative strategies, and investment professionals operating in every major world market, we offer investment experience and insight that few other firms can match.

The candidate will function as an Applications Developer within the Global Investment Management Technology group with a focus on Core Operations Technology. Core Operations Technology consists of the application stack used to support Complex Loan Servicing, Reconciliations, Corporate Actions, Mutual Fund Trade Processing, Custodian Messaging, Bank Loan processing, and other functions. The role will involve architecture, design and development of a suite of applications using Java/J2EE technologies.

Key Responsibilities:
Serve as a member of a Scrum development team to deliver technology solutions in an Agile fashion including, but not limited to, sprint planning, complexity analysis, standups, and sprint retrospectives.

Design, analyze, develop, code, debug and document programming to satisfy business requirements for large, complex projects.

Adhere to firm-wide architecture standards, risk management and security policies.

Deliver on J2EE and RDBMS based technologies for the Operations business

Design the technical architecture for new applications and changes to existing applications including class diagrams/object modeling, data modeling, and system interfaces.

Translate functional specifications into technical specifications and runbooks in support of application builds.

Perform application development build tasks and perform application coding in J2EE and RDBMS technologies along with select vendor applications.

Communicate timely build status on development items to management team, as well as raise/work to resolve issues impacting development.

Assist in third level support of applications once delivered into Production.

A minimum of 4 or more years of experience with related technologies and software development life cycle (SDLC)

Strong Java/J2EE programming skills

Strong experience with messaging (e.g. MQ)

Working knowledge of Tomcat/Apache application servers

Hands-on experience with Spring and Hibernate frameworks

Knowledge of standard build and deployment tools such as Eclipse, Maven, Git/Stash, Ant, and Jira

Experience with database development and design including experience with Oracle and/or Sybase

Demonstrated experience with OO design patterns/frameworks, including application integration frameworks

Ability to multi-task and engage productively on multiple projects simultaneously

Ability to balance application development and application support needs

Good communication skills (verbal and written) with the ability to communicate complex issues to technical and non-technical audiences that include peers, partners, and senior IT and Business management

Development Experience with XML and RESTful web services desirable

College degree in Computer Sciences or equivalent major

AngularJS and JavaScript experience a plus