Fund Accounting (InvestOne) Application Developer Lead

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $2.5 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’s Corporate & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets and investor services. The world’s most important corporations, governments and institutions entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. With $18 trillion of assets under custody and $393 billion in deposits, the Corporate & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.

As an Application Developer Lead, you will support the development and leadership of several investment initiatives and the ongoing enhancements of the Fund Accounting application (core platform is FIS (Sungard) InvestOne product.

As part of the JPMC Technology Group, you ensure project objectives are in support of audit and information risk policies. Lead technical design and architecture while incorporating best practices. Prioritize and manage development and implementation of projects/enhancements by JPMorgan employees as well as consultants based in US and overseas. Oversee installations and release management including the final production acceptance review and signoff.

Expectations include significant application development experience, strong technical leadership, proven background in managing client requirements & expectations and a good understanding of risk management & application security. You will create and execute on projects using the Agile development philosophy.

Responsibilities:

-Lead the post-implementation review evaluating project results, including client satisfaction. Effectively collaborate with the Business Analysts, Testing teams, Product, Operations and Infrastructure partners to deliver a high quality product to our business.

-Partner with Production Support to resolve production issues, monitoring and capacity management. Champion initiatives and implement solutions to reduce baseline application costs.

-Lead the post-implementation review evaluating project results, including client satisfaction. Promote effective teamwork and manage the resolution of interpersonal issues.

-Participate in project planning sessions with project managers, business analysts and team members to analyze business requirements and outline the proposed IT solution. You will participate in design reviews and provide input to the design recommendations; incorporate security requirements into design; and provide input to information/data flow, and understand and comply with Project Life Cycle Methodology in all planning steps.

-Adhere to IT Control Policies throughout design, development and testing and incorporate Corporate Architectural Standards into application design specifications. Additionally, document the detailed application specifications, translate technical requirements into programmed application modules and develop/Enhance software application modules.

– Participate in implementation reviews and ensure that all solutions are aligned to pre-defined architectural specifications; identify/troubleshoot application code-related issues; and review and provide feedback to the final user documentation.

•15+ years of software development experience; analysis, design, coding, testing and debugging skills

•Strong technical experience with mainframe technologies, such as COBOL, CICS, VSAM, DB2 along with messaging TCP/IP, MQ, etc.

•5+ years of expert programming experience with InvestOne (Sungard’s fund accounting product)

•Knowledge of version and revision control practices and procedures; Endevor experience a plus

•Ability to develop strong internal and external relationships

•Experience leading geographically distributed and culturally diverse workgroups with strong team management, leadership and mentoring skills

•Experience leading multiple projects concurrently

•Excellent verbal and written communication skills

•College degree, specialized training or equivalent work experience

Soft Skills:

• Have an open attitude towards sharing ideas and knowledge.

• A proactive approach to problem solving, taking ownership of issues and having the determination to follow things through.

• Excellent listening, written and verbal communication skills, including facilitation, presentation and production of documentation appropriate to an audience.

• The ability to shift perspective from high level ‘Big Picture’ to low-level detail.

• Good prioritization and time management.

• The ability to present and absorb complex ideas quickly and accurately.

• The ability to provide solutions to a tight deadline.

• The ability to work within a large team, sometimes under stress, but always under control.

• The ability to work independently as well as part of a team.

• Ability to work effectively as a member of a team

• A self-confident and authoritative leader without being over bearing