Sr. Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Job Description

As a Lead Infrastructure Engineer within the Electronic Trading Service at JPMorgan Chase, you bring broad, cross-disciplinary expertise spanning low-latency software, network/platform engineering, and the end-to-end electronic trading stack across Investment Banking Markets (FICC and Equities). You pair deep domain knowledge of trading verticals and high-level execution strategies (e.g., agency execution, market making, hedging, and liquidity-seeking/impact-minimizing routing) with a strong understanding of core market components—including real-time market data (L1/L2, multicast feed-handling, normalization and distribution), venue connectivity, and exchange/order semantics (order types, time-in-force, throttles/limits, and drop-copy/clearing flows).

The successful candidate will have hands-on experience using IXIA to validate performance and traffic behaviour under realistic market-data and order-entry patterns—characterizing throughput, latency, jitter, microburst behaviour, and packet loss—and will hold an active network platform certification (e.g., Cisco, Juniper, Arista, or equivalent).

Job responsibilities

• Develop and design the architecture for electronic trading systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance to meet trading requirements.
• Applies deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies focused on analyzing complex data and systems, anticipating issues, and finding ways to mitigate risk.
• Works with other platforms to architect and implement changes required to resolve issues and modernize the organization and its technology processes
• Maintain detailed documentation of system architecture, configurations, and changes, and provide regular reports on system performance and issues.
• Acts as the escalation point during major incidents for your application and demonstrates the skills to identify and solve issues quickly to avoid financial losses.
• Be responsible for infrastructure engineering in accordance with business requirements.
• Executes work according to compliance standards, risk and security, and business objectives
• Considers upstream/downstream system or technical implications and advises on mitigation actions
• Advises junior engineers and technologists
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent 
• Formal Training and certification such as CCNP, CCIE or equivalent and 5+ years of applied experience 
• Strong understanding of network architecture, protocols, and technologies (e.g., TCP/IP, multicast, routing, switching).
• Knowledge of one or more areas of infrastructure engineering such as hardware, networking terminology, databases, storage engineering, deployment practices, integration, automation, scaling, resilience, or performance assessments
• Experience in network architecture, systems engineering, or a related field, within the financial services industry.
• Utilize network automation tools and scripting languages (e.g., Python, Ansible) to automate network tasks and configurations.
• Deep technical knowledge across multiple domains including Cloud technologies.
• Design, configure, and manage routing, switching infrastructure including load balancers, to ensure efficient distribution of network traffic.
• Ability to adapt to a fast-paced and dynamic trading environment, with a willingness to learn and implement new technologies.
• Maintain a thorough understanding of basic and advanced concepts in the fields/products/tools of:  Network system architecture (processor, ASIC, FPGA, port capabilities, packet forwarding, buffers, etc.); a good knowledge of network routing protocols: Multicast, PIM & IGMP; IP packet analysis using Wireshark; Arista, Cisco, F5 and Fortinet product range.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills 

• Exposure to managing budgets
• Familiarity with financial markets, trading platforms, and electronic trading systems.
• Understanding of market data feeds and exchange connectivity
• Understand deeply network design, implementation, and maintenance, and manage complex network environments to ensure the reliability, performance, and security of the trading infrastructure.
• Configure and manage Cisco routers and switches with proficiency, including knowledge of IOS and NX-OS.
• Demonstrate expertise in Arista's EOS and experience with Arista's low latency switching solutions.
• Comprehend in-depth network protocols such as BGP, FHRP, and multicast.

About Us

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process. 

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.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans

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.