Senior Lead Software Engineer

We are seeking a Senior Lead Software to join our global Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team to support our Asset & Wealth Management  Data and Analytics platforms. As a member of our software engineering group, we look first and foremost for people who are passionate around solving business problems through innovation and engineering practices. You'll be required to apply your depth of knowledge and expertise to all aspects of the software development lifecycle, as well as partner continuously with our group’s internal and external stakeholders daily to stay focused on common goals. We embrace a culture of experimentation and constantly strive for improvement and learning. You’ll work in a collaborative, trusting, thought-provoking environment one that encourages diversity of thought and creative solutions that are in the best interests of our customers globally.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Asset & Wealth Management, AM Core Data 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

• Drives platform and functional teams to design, develop, test, release, and monitor data platform tools and supporting services using agile methodology.
• Identifies application patterns and analytics that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations such as reliability & scalability of data platform tools and supporting services.
• Drives improvements through software as an SME in areas of observability, reliability, and availability.
• Learns new skills and keep up with industry innovations to deliver solutions that automate manual or cumbersome work.
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debug code written by others as well as evangelize Test Driven development approach.
• Influences a culture of operational excellence & feedback in cloud and hybrid application ecosystem so no functional fault repeats.
• Leads troubleshooting of priority incidents, conduct blameless post-mortems and ensure permanent closure of incident through software engineering.
• Writes technical documentation such as architecture diagrams, service specifications, runbooks, and technical primers.
• 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
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability hybrid and on-cloud.
• Hands-on experience with modern programming language(s) such as java, python, and release management tools
• Hands-on experience with Unix OS, software repository tools, observability tools, and performance testing tools 
• Practical knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, networking, DB, compute, messaging technologies etc.)
• Takes on design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight.
• Works effectively and can prioritize tasks in a highly dynamic work environment that includes globally positioned resources.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral appropriately scaled for senior technical and senior business audience. 

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

 

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 management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set, and location. For those in eligible roles, we offer discretionary incentive compensation which may be awarded in recognition of firm performance and 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 cente