Senior Lead Software Engineer - Platform Engineering

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

Join our Data Platforms Technology Engineering team as a Senior Lead Software Java Developer. In this key role, you'll develop data platform applications on AWS, collaborating with business and product teams to create a strong core framework and data transformation functionalities for complex business needs. Your expertise will drive our transition to the public cloud, emphasizing AWS product use, authentication and authorization best practices, certificate management, performance optimization, and database migration tools.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Sector AIML Data Platforms -Fusion Team, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

Job responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors.
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others.
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus.
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies.
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Experience building complex distributed systems using Java (11/17) on AWS
• Deep knowledge of AWS product/services and Kubernetes/container technologies and how they are best used for specific workloads.
• Ability to quickly learn and apply new technologies and patterns.
• Good understanding of established patterns, such as stability patterns/anti-patterns, event-based architecture, CQRS and process orchestration.
• Real world experience in building out applications on AWS across multi AZ, multi region and multi-cloud vendor environments.
• Experience in designing practical architectures that business engineering teams adopt for application development.
• An excellent understanding of modern engineering practices to take advantage of key benefits of Public Cloud (e.g. auto-scaling)
• A mindset geared towards a fantastic end-to-end engineering experience supported by excellent tooling and automation.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills 

•  Understanding of Big Data stack (Spark/Iceberg)
• Understanding of established patterns, such as stability patterns/anti-patterns, event-based architecture, CQRS and process orchestration.

   

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 c