AWS RDS Database Software Engineer II

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level.

As a Software Engineer II - AWS RDS Database Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate and Investment Banking Division, you are part of an agile team that works to enhance, design, and deliver the software components of the firm’s state-of-the-art technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As an emerging member of a software engineering team, you execute software solutions through the design, development, and technical troubleshooting of multiple components within a technical product, application, or system, while gaining the skills and experience needed to grow within your role.  You are responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm's business objectives. 

Job Responsibilities

• Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems
• Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development
• Gathers, analyzes, synthesizes, and develops visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems
• Identifies hidden problems proactively and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
• Monitors customer facing databases and ensuring 24x7x365 uptime within our internal SLA of 99.99% with on call responsibility
• Sets up and configure Amazon RDS database instances
• Identifies optimization opportunities within customer facing databases
• Manages capacity and plan database resources

 

Required Qualifications, Capabilities and Skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 2+ years applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Proficient in coding in one or more languages
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
• Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Applicant Resiliency, and Security
• Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)

 

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Good to have proficiency in few modern technologies such as: Java version 8+, Spring Boot, Restful Microservices, AWS or Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes
• Preferred minimum of 3 years of experience with Microsoft SQL Server, preferably in a highly transactional / OLTP environment
• Preferred experience in performance Testing experience with Blazemeter / JMeter and automation experience with Cucumber / Automated Functional Testing
• Preferred experience with Datadog and Cloud watch
• Preferred experience with Microsoft SQL Server tools 
• Experience with Always-On Availability groups preferred.
• Background in installation and configuration of SQL Server database technology in a development and DBA capacity, including but not limited to data back-up and restore, debugging, optimizing, software patch applications, defragmenting and replacing of databases
• Preferred at least 2 years of experience with AWS databases services including RDS SQL

Please note this position is a Hybrid Office Work Position with our Offices in Newport Beach or Philadelphia, PA.  This is Not a Remote Only Position. 

JPMorgan Chase & Co., 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 mana