Job Description

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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 .

About Digital Markets Execution (DMET)

JPMorgan\'s e-Trading business offers automated multi-asset, macro trading services across a number of use cases, for both as corporate or retail clients. Feature rich platforms offer the ability to trade across FX, Commodities, Rates and Credit .

The business is supported by a global technology team with contributors in Houston, New York, Bournemouth, London, Mumbai, Bangalore and Singapore. The team is organized into Agile development teams supported by QA and Product Teams.



Digital Markets Execution within CIB Markets owns the digital transformation agenda across asset classes. The focus is delivery of innovative solutions to automate workflows, distribution of pricing electronically and surface client and market intelligence in order to drive revenue growth and market share for the organization.

Key Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be involved in the management of software development processes for DMET trading/sales platforms. Specifically, you will:

• Be the subject matter expert on Agile Software Delivery, guiding teams to embrace scrum ways of working
• Guide the development team on the establishment of data driven metrics such as:

• Definition of ready for backlog, definition of done.
• Story point, time-based velocity charts
• Churn to measure stories and tasks moved from sprint to sprint

• Partner with product owner to prioritize work through backlog and manage scrum artifacts
• Facilitating agile sprint ceremonies as appropriate, including sprint planning, daily stand ups, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives and backlog refinement
• Reviewing sprint progress and ensure latest status is captured and updated as appropriate
• Ensure teams manage work and prioritizes effectively, all team members are engaged, and all work is captured in backlog
• Driving team members to anticipate and resolve potential blockers and ensuring impediments and blockers are removed or escalated in a timely manner
• Understanding of key agile metrics such as sprint burndown charts, velocity charts, control charts
• Experience of leading agile teams both onshore and offshore across global locations
• Foster a culture of collaboration with other scrum teams and collaboratively work with other tech partner and product teams to effectively identify and track key dependencies
• Product Delivery and Management: Manage projects against aggressive client commitments and deadlines. Ensure ordered and well documented product backlogs. Remove blockers to development progress. Manage stakeholder expectations. Assists heavily in re-planning if needed based on customer requirements.
• Produce clear and transparent project governance and reporting processes
• Assist Business Management in financial aspects of development.
• Be commercial aware and mindful of costs vs benefits in everything we do.
• The Agility lead helps build a culture of cooperation and engagement within the team through development of practices and activities that are team led and owned.

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• Experience of technology landscape involved in macro-trading assets.
• End to End business and product knowledge - including pricing, trading, settlement, accounting, payments
• Significant experience with the agile software development framework, with a substantial experience in high pressure, time critical environments.
• Be an effective communicator with technical audiences, able to present complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders in person and via status reports at all levels of seniority.
• Expertise in resolving conflicting priorities. Problem solving within ambiguous and fast-paced environment with attitude to get things done
• A thorough understanding of agile methodologies and the project manager\'s role in it including prioritization, technical and project risk assessment, estimation, project timelines, value-based change control etc.
• Collaborative working mindset. Able to communicate with empathy and influence others broadly within our area of responsibility
• Interacting with others with excellent people management skills, listening, motivating, observing, giving and receiving feedback helps individuals and team grow
• Expertise, including best practices in standards methods and tools for Agile (JIRA, confluence)
• Bachelor\'s degree (or higher) with relevant work experience in software development processes for at least 5 years.
• Ability to work independently, own issues to resolution and be self-motivated to achieve the best results for our business partners.

J.P. Morgan is a place for talented people from all backgrounds and perspectives because our clients come from all backgrounds and perspectives. We encourage a culture of inclusion, where everyone\'s opinion counts and all employees have the freedom to deliver their absolute best. This is why we work hard and invest in attracting and developing a diverse workforce.

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. In accordance with applicable law, we make reasonable accommodations for applicants\' and employees\' religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental health or physical disability needs.

About the Team: The Corporate & Investment Bank is a global leader across investment banking, wholesale payments, markets and securities services. The world\'s most important corporations, governments and institutions entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. We provide strategic advice, raise capital, manage risk and extend liquidity in markets around the world.

JPMorgan Chase