Lead Software Engineer - AWS, Java

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer and Community Banking - Data Technology, 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. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives. 

Job responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
• Leads technical designs and be part of a team of geographically distributed analysts and developers responsible for the program’s software solutions engineering function.
• Participates, Designs and Codes the development function for the Authentication middleware services Platform that supports external facing mobile/web applications, batch programs and databases.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on Software Engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Experience in Architect, deploy, and manage scalable, secure, and highly available AWS infrastructure solutions.
• Experience in Provision and manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, KMS, SQS, SNS, ELB/ALB, Aurora and other AWS services.
• Design and create AWS ECS/EKS upgrade process and minimize application outage time.
• Design, develop, and maintain robust Java applications using the Spring framework, including Spring Boot, Spring MVC, and Spring Data.
• Build and consume Java RESTful APIs and microservices, ensuring scalability and maintainability. Integrate applications with databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, AWS Aurora) using Spring Data JPA or JDBC.
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
• Practical cloud native experience

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Automate infrastructure deployment and management using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation or AWS CLI.
• Set up monitoring, logging, and alerting for AWS resources; analyze performance and optimize infrastructure for cost and efficiency.
• Maintain AWS infrastructure and resolve any FARM breaks to maintain platform healthy and secure. Implement backup strategies and disaster recovery plans.
• Perform unit, integration, and system testing using JUnit, Mockito, and other testing frameworks to ensure application reliability and performance

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