Senior Lead Software Engineer - Java / AWS

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

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Bank - Digital and Platform Services (Payments Tech) 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
• Contributes to the engineering of application infrastructure that can be deployed seamlessly on AWS or private cloud, ensuring portability, scalability, and reliability, and cost efficiency across multi-cloud platforms
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus and actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software  Development Life Cycle toolchain to improve the value realized by automation, and support CI/CD pipeline integration with automating deployment processes for multi-cloud environments
• Resolve, deploy and manage containerized applications using Kubernetes, supporting both AWS and private cloud environments with application infrastructures and feature issues, including root cause analysis remediation
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, CloudFormation, and/or equivalent tools, adaptable to multiple cloud platforms
• Follow best practices for cloud, container, and application security, data protection, and compliance with internal and external
• Learn and apply system processes, methodologies, and skills for the development of secure, stable code and systems while working closely with developers, architects, and business stakeholders to deliver robust, flexible cloud solutions and application features
• Coach, mentor and train developers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training and certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience. In addition, 2+ years of experience leading
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming languages and frameworks (i.e., Java, Terraform, Containers, etc.)
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Practical cloud native experience
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

 

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Exposure to cloud technologies
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer certification
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or similar certification
• Experience with hybrid cloud environments and cloud migration strategies
• Knowledge of monitoring and logging tools (CloudWatch, ELK Stack, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
• Exposure to financial services or other highly regulated industries

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/o