lead developer

Waracle

<div><p>Waracle are looking for a <b>Lead</b> <b>Developer</b> to join our world-class digital technology consultancy and home to a diverse, smart, curious, and ambitious community of specialists in technology-driven transformation. We work with ambitious clients to help them solve their biggest business and customer challenges. We help our clients to innovate and create intelligent digital products and services. We thrive on complex challenges and deliver business-critical IT transformation projects, moving seamlessly from strategy, design, and delivery to operations.</p><p></p><p>
This is a <b>Hybrid</b> role working from our <b>London office</b> 2 days a week.</p><p></p><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
Shape the Future of Digital Innovation</b></h3><p>
As a Lead Developer, you will provide technical leadership across squads, defining architecture, guiding engineering best practices, and ensuring high-quality delivery aligned with client and business goals. You will translate business priorities into technical roadmaps, manage delivery expectations around scope, budget, and timelines, and create a psychologically safe, high-performing environment where teams can thrive.</p><p></p><p>
If you are a collaborative leader who thrives on solving complex technical challenges, enjoys mentoring and empowering teams, and is passionate about delivering high-quality solutions that create real business value, we would love to welcome you to our team.</p><p></p><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
Duties of This Role</b></h3><p>
Reporting to the Head of Engineering, your role will cover:</p><ul><li><b>
Strategic Planning &amp; Roadmaps:</b> Translate business objectives into effective technical strategies, ensuring engineering roadmaps align with long-term client goals and deliver sustainable value.</li><li><b>
Stakeholder Management &amp; Collaboration:</b> Facilitate workshops to understand requirements, align technical solutions with business needs, and manage expectations around scope, budget, priorities, and delivery outcomes.</li><li><b>
Team Leadership &amp; Empowerment:</b> Lead squads and projects with accountability for successful delivery, fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and psychologically safe environment where teams can thrive.</li><li><b>
Operational Excellence &amp; Delivery Focus:</b> Own technical delivery outcomes by making informed decisions and pragmatic trade-offs across scope, quality, and timelines to maintain delivery momentum.</li><li><b>
Culture &amp; Knowledge Sharing:</b> Define and evolve Waracle&rsquo;s technical standards while contributing to our shared body of knowledge through lessons learned, thought leadership, and good practices.</li></ul><p><b><br>
What You'll Bring</b><br>
<i>Research shows that women and underrepresented groups often apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. At Waracle, we hire for potential, passion, and a collaborative mindset just as much as current experience. If you share our values and believe you can excel in this role, we strongly encourage you to apply&mdash;even if you don't tick every single box</i></p><ul><li><b>
Technical Architecture &amp; Scalability:</b> Proven experience designing, documenting, and scaling complex back-end architectures, distributed systems, microservices, and database designs (SQL and other technologies) within cloud-native environments&mdash;particularly Azure (with a focus on API management, maintenance, and scaling).</li><li><b>
Cloud &amp; Engineering Excellence:</b> Strong expertise in cloud-native technologies, building fault-tolerant systems, and implementing effective monitoring, observability, and alerting strategies to ensure operational reliability.</li><li><b>
Commercial &amp; Delivery Awareness:</b> Demonstrable understanding of balancing technical decisions with business priorities, managing scope, budgets, delivery expectations, and evolving client needs.</li><li><b>
Technical Leadership &amp; Mentorship:</b> Proven ability to lead engineering squads, influence technical direction, mentor senior engineers, and promote a culture of collaboration, learning, and engineering excellence.</li></ul><p></p><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
The Recruitment Process</b></h3><p></p><p>
You can expect an initial call with your dedicated Talent Acquisition Partner, who will chat with you about Waracle, what you are looking for in a new position, the salary for the role, notice period, and benefits. After that, you'll be invited to a two-stage interview process where you will have an opportunity to find out more about the role and showcase your skills and experience. Your Talent Acquisition Partner will guide and support you through the whole process right up to your first day with us</p></div><p></p>

Lead Backend Developer

Arch Capital Group Ltd.

<div><p>With a company culture rooted in collaboration, expertise and innovation, we aim to promote progress and inspire our clients, employees, investors and communities to achieve their greatest potential. Our work is the catalyst that helps others achieve their goals. In short, We Enable Possibility℠.</p><p></p><p><b>
Technical Guidance:</b></p><ul><li>
Provide technical guidance and leadership in the design and development of software applications using C#.</li><li>
Ensure the application of best practices in coding, testing, and maintenance.</li><li>
Stay updated with the latest developments in C# and related technologies.</li></ul><p><b>
Software Development:</b></p><ul><li>
Design, code, test, debug, and document complex applications and systems.</li><li>
Optimize and refactor existing code to improve performance and maintainability.</li><li>
Collaborate with other team members to integrate systems and solutions.</li></ul><p><b><br>
Skills</b></p><p><b><br>
</b></p><p><b>Comprehensive understanding of:</b></p><ul><li>
C#</li><li>
TDD, BDD, DDD</li><li>
Able to confidently discuss the various architectural patterns with a good understanding of trade-offs</li><li>
Experience with SQL and NoSQL DBMS</li><li>
Modern source control system (for example GitHub)</li><li>
Experience with a cloud platform (Azure/AWS)</li><li>
Event Sourcing (desirable)</li><li>
Experience with an AI platform (OpenAI), (desirable)</li></ul><p></p><p>
Do you like solving complex business problems, working with talented colleagues and have an innovative mindset? Arch may be a great fit for you. If this job isn&rsquo;t the right fit but you&rsquo;re interested in working for Arch, create a job alert! Simply create an account and opt in to receive emails when we have job openings that meet your criteria. Join our talent community to share your preferences directly with Arch&rsquo;s Talent Acquisition team.
</p><p></p>14101 Arch Europe Insurance Services Ltd</div>

Lead Software Developer

<div><p>Waracle are looking for a <b>Principal Developer</b> to join our world-class digital technology consultancy and home to a diverse, smart, curious, and ambitious community of specialists in technology-driven transformation. We work with ambitious clients to help them solve their biggest business and customer challenges. We help our clients to innovate and create intelligent digital products and services. We thrive on complex challenges and deliver business-critical IT transformation projects, moving seamlessly from strategy, design, and delivery to operations.</p><p></p><p>
This is a <b>Hybrid</b> role working from our <b>London office</b> 2 days a week.</p><p></p><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
Shape the Future of Digital Innovation</b></h3><p>
As a Principal Developer, you will act as a strategic technical leader, guiding and shaping robust architectures, data strategies, and cloud-native environments across multiple squads and collaborative programmes. In this role, you will champion technical excellence, making thoughtful choices that balance cost, security, performance, and user experience to help Waracle scale and deliver high-performance, world-class products. If you are a collaborative leader who thrives on mentoring talent, fostering inclusive engineering communities, and navigating complex technical landscapes with empathy and pragmatism, we would love to welcome you to our team.</p><p></p><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
Duties of This Role</b></h3><p>
Reporting to the Head of Engineering, your role will cover:</p><ul><li><b>
Solving Complex Technical Challenges:</b> Partner closely with client technical and business stakeholders at all levels, gaining a deep understanding of their technology estates to advise on impactful, world-class digital solutions.</li><li><b>
Technical Excellence &amp; Delivery:</b> Shape architectures across multiple squads; select tools and frameworks to scale across clients while optimising for cost, security, performance, and scalability.</li><li><b>
Collaboration &amp; Stakeholder Management:</b> Act as a trusted advisor to clients on technical strategy and roadmaps, translating complex technical concepts into clear, accessible communication for senior stakeholders.</li><li><b>
Leadership &amp; Community Cultivation:</b> Mentor Lead and Senior Engineers, foster and grow our engineering community of practice, and ensure cross-team alignment on technical standards.</li><li><b>
Culture &amp; Knowledge Sharing:</b> Define and evolve Waracle&rsquo;s technical standards while contributing to our shared body of knowledge through lessons learned, thought leadership, and good practices.</li></ul><p></p><p><b><br>
What You'll Bring</b><br>
<i>Research shows that women and underrepresented groups often apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. At Waracle, we hire for potential, passion, and a collaborative mindset just as much as current experience. If you share our values and believe you can excel in this role, we strongly encourage you to apply&mdash;even if you don't tick every single box</i></p><ul><li><b>
Architectural Leadership:</b> Proven experience designing, documenting, and scaling complex back-end architectures, distributed systems, microservices, and database designs (SQL and other technologies) within cloud-native environments&mdash;particularly Azure (with a focus on API management, maintenance, and scaling).</li><li><b>
Technical Direction &amp; Delivery Ownership:</b> Strong leadership capability to set clear technical direction, maintain a dedicated ownership mindset, and foster high-standard outcomes across complex enterprise projects.</li><li><b>
Consultative Communication:</b> Excellent communication and influencing skills, with a demonstrated ability to navigate complex client organisations, support diverse stakeholders, and pragmatically balance commercial constraints with high technical standards.</li><li><b>
Team Mentorship &amp; Growth:</b> A proven track record of mentoring, developing, and aligning senior engineers and technical leaders to foster a collaborative culture of continuous learning and psychological safety.</li><li><b>
Modern SDLC Innovation:</b> A pragmatic, forward-thinking understanding of leveraging and applying AI acceleration tools within the Software Development Life Cycle to optimise engineering practices.</li></ul><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
The Recruitment Process</b></h3><p>
You can expect an initial call with your dedicated Talent Acquisition Partner, who will chat with you about Waracle, what you are looking for in a new position, the salary for the role, notice period, and benefits. After that, you'll be invited to a two-stage interview process where you will have an opportunity to find out more about the role and showcase your skills and experience. Your Talent Acquisition Partner will guide and support you through the whole process right up to your first day with us</p></div><p></p>

Principal Backend Developer

JPMorganChase

<div><b>JOB DESCRIPTION</b><br>
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<div><b>Job responsibilities</b><br>
<ul><li>Own the delivery of value-add activities as part of a scrum team and be an active member governing the overall platform.</li><li>Enhance and develop new features for risk aggregation and hedging, leveraging React and Java</li><li>Act as a Lead developer who will help set direction and best practice around automated testing, platform framework, SDLC as well as acting a point of contact for more junior developers to give them guidance on best practices.</li><li>You will also collaborate with other frontend developers to get involved with code reviews and building up our suite of re-suable components to facilitate faster development.
</li><li>Close collaboration with a number of teams including Trading, Sales and Quantitative Research, UX as well as other technology teams.</li></ul></div><div><b><br>
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills</b><br>
<ul><li>Commercial experience working with Java
</li><li>Experience in designing scalable micro-services using RESTful</li><li>Knowledge of server side technologies (Spring/Spring boot, messaging frameworks such as ActiveMQ, Kafka, maven/gradle, junit mocking frameworks)
</li><li>Experience in developing, debugging and automated testing (e.g. react testing library / cypress) within a commercial setting</li><li>Expertise in Databases, relational, and No-SQL and JVM performance analysis including profiling, heap dump analysis, thread dump analysis, and GC tuning within a commercial setting</li><li>Solid understanding of CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins), Application Resiliency, and Security</li></ul></div><div><b>
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills</b><br>
<ul><li>Working within Investment Bank / Finance Technology</li><li>Experience in leading an agile delivery team leveraging scrum, sprint planning, retrospectives and reporting progress to senior stakeholders.</li></ul><br>
</div><b>ABOUT US</b>
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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.<br>
<div><div>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.<br>
</div></div><br>
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<b>ABOUT THE TEAM</b>
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J.P. Morgan's Commercial &amp; 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 &amp; Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.</div>

Lead Software Engineer EQ - EDG STR&TRD - XMKTS STRUCTURING UK

Novartis

<div><div><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>Summary
</b></h3><div>#LI-Hybrid
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Location: London, UK - remote working will be considered
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This role is based in London, UK. Novartis is unable to offer relocation support for this role. Please only apply if this location is accessible for you.
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100,000+ unique, curious, and empowered individuals inspired by our purpose.<br>
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This role will work as part of an interdisciplinary team to develop solutions and tools that enable study teams working on analyses and reporting activities in clinical trials. They will work across the clinical reporting lifecycle gain an appreciation of the user experience today and work with Product Owners to deliver progress in high impact areas. Additionally, this role will focus on enabling the use of open-source programming languages and tooling.</div>
</div><div><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>About the Role
</b></h3><div><p><b>Major accountabilities:</b></p><ul><li>
Develop and maintain R packages that enable clinical trial team through supporting data engineering, statistical analyses, automation, and reporting workflows.</li><li>
Design, build and deploy Shiny applications for interactive dashboards and data exploration tools.</li><li>
Collaborate with statistical programmers and statisticians, and clinical reporting teams to understand requirements and translate them into efficient, reproducible code and tools.</li><li>
Apply AI responsibly to support product design and development focusing on reliable, explainable, and impactful use in development workflows and solutions.</li><li>
Drive the rollout of tooling through demos, pilots, training and support.</li><li>
Engagement in the user experience of our users to identify and drive opportunities for continuous improvement and modernization.</li><li>
Role model best practices for data science and software development.</li><li>
Documentation of tools and processes to support modernization in an inclusive manner.</li><li>
Appetite to engage in open-source communities to collaborate in external settings.</li></ul><p><b><br>
Minimum requirement:</b></p><ul><li>
MSc in a quantitative / computational science or eqivalent</li><li>
Experience as an R developer</li><li>
Deep knowledge of <b>data manipulation</b> (tidyverse) and <b>data visualization</b> (ggplot2, plotly).</li><li>
Demonstrated ability to develop production-grade R packages, including comprehensive documentation and rigorous testing frameworks.</li><li>
Hands on experience deploying and maintaining R applications in <b>production environments</b>.</li><li>
Highly proficient in Shiny app development and deployment.</li><li>
Deep experience in software development best practices (virtual environments, git, CI/CD, code review etc.)</li><li>
Hands on experience applying AI and agentic approaches to improve developer productivity of data-driven applications</li><li>
Solution-oriented mindset with a collaborative spirit</li><li>
Good written English</li></ul><p></p><p><b>
Desirable requirements:</b></p><ul><li>
Good understanding of drug development process</li><li>
High level understanding of the regulatory requirements for computer systems and tools</li><li>
Knowledge of Quarto, workflow automation, or metadata-driven reporting.</li><li>
Participation in open-source projects within the pharmaceutical sector, such as those associated with R Consortium, pharmaverse, openpharma or openstatware.
</li></ul><p></p><p><b>Benefits &amp; Rewards</b></p><p></p><p>
At Novartis, we&rsquo;re committed to reimagining medicine together - and rewarding the people who make it happen.</p><p></p><p><b>
Expected Annual Base Salary Range for role: 57,050.00 -105,950.00 GBP
</b></p><p></p><p>The base salary offered is determined based on gender-neutral objectives, such as relevant skills, competencies and experience in accordance with the Novartis pay setting policy and upon joining Novartis will be reviewed periodically.</p><p></p><p>
In addition to your base salary, you may be eligible for a performance-based bonus depending on certain performance parameters.</p><p></p><p>
The rewards of being part of our team go far beyond base pay and incentives. We also offer a variety of competitive benefits in kind to help you thrive personally and professionally, such as insurance plans, retirement plans, wellbeing resources and global recognition programs. In addition, we provide flexible and hybrid working options, where possible, and minimum 14 weeks paid parental leave.</p><p></p><p>
Pay equity is a fundamental principle of our employment policy and reflects our commitment to create a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment that treats all employees with dignity and respect, as outlined in our Code of Ethics.</p><p></p><p>
Read our brochure to learn more about our global total rewards offering:</p><p>
https://www.novartis.com/sites/novartis_com/files/novartis-life-handbook.pdf</p><p></p><p><i>
Note: Benefits and compensation may vary by country and are subject to local legal requirements, including provisions of collective bargaining agreements where applicable. A full overview of your compensation package, including any relevant collective bargaining agreement details applicable to your role based on your employment location and Novartis employer entity, will be communicated separately to you during the application process.</i></p><p></p><p><b>
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion / EEO paragraph</b></p><p>
Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams&rsquo; representative of the patients and communities we serve.</p></div><p></p>
</div><div><div><p><b>Why Novartis:</b> Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients&rsquo; lives. Ready to create a brighter future together? https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture</p><p><b>
Benefits and Rewards:</b> Learn about all the ways we&rsquo;ll help you thrive personally and professionally.<br>
Read our handbook (PDF 30 MB)</p></div></div></div>
<br><div><div>Primary location salary range
<div>&pound;57,050.00 - &pound;105,950.00
</div></div><div>Division
<div>Development
</div></div><div>Business Unit
<div>Development
</div></div><div>Location
<div>United Kingdom
</div></div><div>Site
<div>London (The Westworks)
</div></div><div>Company / Legal Entity
<div>GB16 (FCRS = GB016) Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK Ltd.
</div></div><div>Alternative Location 1
<div>Home Worker, United Kingdom
</div></div><div>Functional Area
<div>Data and Digital
</div></div><div>Job Type
<div>Full time
</div></div><div>Employment Type
<div>Regular
</div></div><div>Shift Work
<div>No</div></div></div><div></div>

Senior Principal Developer

<div><b>JOB DESCRIPTION</b><br>
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<p>At JP Morgan Chase, we understand that customers seek exceptional value and a seamless experience from a trusted financial institution. That's why we launched Chase UK to transform digital banking with intuitive and enjoyable customer journeys. With a strong foundation of trust established by millions of customers in the US, we have been rapidly expanding our presence in the UK and soon across Europe. We have been building the bank of the future from the ground up, offering you the chance to join us and make a significant impact.
</p><p>As a Lead Data Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the International Consumer Bank, you will play a crucial role in this initiative, dedicated to delivering an outstanding banking experience to our customers. You will work in a collaborative environment as part of a diverse, inclusive, and geographically distributed team. We are seeking individuals with a curious mindset and a keen interest in new technology.</p>
<p>Our engineers are naturally solution-oriented and possess an interest in the financial sector and focus
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on addressing our customer needs. We work in teams focused on specific banking functions and products, providing opportunities to build data pipelines and reporting capabilities for functional areas such as finance and business management, treasury operations, financial crime prevention, regulatory reporting and analytics. We collaborate with product teams such as card payments, electronic payments, lending,
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customer onboarding, core banking, and insurance to understand their product datamodels and deliver tailored data solutions that meet business needs.<br>
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</p><div><b>Job responsibilities
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<ul><li>Deliver end-to-end data pipeline solutions on cloud infrastructure leveraging the
</li></ul>latest technologies and the best industry practices
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<ul><li>Use domain modelling techniques to allow us to build best in class business
</li></ul>products.
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<ul><li>Structure software so that it is easy to understand, test and evolve.
</li><li>Build solutions that avoid single points of failure, using scalable architectural
</li></ul>patterns.
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<ul><li>Develop secure code so that our customers and ourselves are protected from
</li></ul>malicious actors.
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<ul><li>Promptly investigate and fix issues and ensure they do not resurface in the future.
</li><li>Make sure our releases happen with zero downtime for our end-users.
</li><li>See that our data is written and read in a way that's optimized for our needs.
</li><li>Keep an eye on performance, making sure we use the right approach to identify
</li></ul>and solve problems.
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<ul><li>Ensure our systems are reliable and easy to operate.
</li><li>Keep us up to date by continuously updating our technologies and patterns.
</li><li>Support the products you've built through their entire lifecycle, including in
</li></ul>production and during incident management<br>
<br>
</div><div><b>Required qualifications, capabilities &amp; skills</b><br>
<ul><li>Formal training or certification on data engineering concepts and applied
</li></ul>experience
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<ul><li>Recent hands-on professional experience as a data engineer
</li><li>Experience in coding in a recent version of the Python programming language
</li><li>Experience in designing and implementing effective tests (unit, component,
</li></ul>integration, end-to-end, performance, etc.)
<br>
<ul><li>Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
</li><li>Experience with cloud technologies and distributed systems
</li><li>Experience with data transformation frameworks and data pipeline orchestration
</li></ul>tools
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<ul><li>Experience with managing large volumes of data and optimizing data processing
</li><li>Understanding of event-base architecture, data streaming and messaging
</li></ul>frameworks
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<ul><li>Coach other team members on coding practices, design principles, and
</li></ul>implementation patterns that lead to high-quality maintainable solutions.
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<ul><li>Manage stakeholders and effectively prioritize work across multiple work
</li></ul>streams.<br>
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</div><div><b>Preferred qualifications, capabilities &amp; skills
</b><br>
<ul><li>Experience in working in a highly regulated environment / industry
</li><li>Experience with AWS cloud technologies
</li><li>Experience with data governance frameworks
</li><li>Understanding of incremental data processing and versioning
</li><li>Understanding of RESTful APIs and web technologies<br>
</li></ul></div><p></p><p>#ICBEngineering #ICBCareers</p>
<b>ABOUT US</b>
<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<div><div>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.<br>
</div></div><br>
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<b>ABOUT THE TEAM</b>
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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.</div>

Lead Data Engineer — International Consumer Bank (Chase UK)

Software Engineer, AI Native Development

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