Lead Software Engineer - Java, AWS

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer and Community Banking's technology 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. 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.

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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

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5 years of applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability and ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including product, QA, and operations
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s)- Java
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, etc)
• Demonstrated expertise in deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters across hybrid infrastructure, including on-premises data centers and AWS EKS
• Experience designing, developing, and deploying scalable applications in cloud environments
• Familiarity with microservices architecture and RESTful API development is needed
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with modern monitoring and logging tools (DataDog, Dynatrace, Splunk)
• Experience with software development best practices, including code reviews, testing, and CI/CD pipelines

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Proficiency in front-end technologies (e.g., JavaScript, React, Angular, or similar) is preferred.

• Experience in architecting large-scale, distributed systems.
• Ability to drive technical strategy and influence engineering best practices across teams.
• Strong stakeholder management and the ability to align technical solutions with business goals.