Lead Software Engineer - Java, DevOps

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Bank, you will solve complex and broad business problems with simple engineering solutions. Through code and cloud infrastructure, you will configure, maintain, monitor, and optimize applications, their performance, resiliency, reliability, and associated infrastructure to independently decompose and iteratively improve on existing solutions. You will work with your fellow stakeholders to define non-functional requirements (NFRs) and availability targets for the services in your application and product lines.

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
• Reviews secure high-quality production code, 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
• Collaborates with stakeholders to create and implement observability and reliability designs for complex systems that are robust, stable, and do not incur additional toil or technical debt
• Provides advice and mentoring to other engineers and acts as a key resource for technologists seeking advice on technical and business-related issues
• Provides comprehensive and ongoing guidance, tools, and solutions to support the firms’ growth
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies

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
• Proficient in Java technology stack to enhance, configure, and support applications to solve complex and mission critical problems within a business or across the firm
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
• 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

• Strong knowledge and experience in observability such as white and black box monitoring, service level objectives, alerting, and telemetry collection using tools such as Grafana, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, etc.
• Strong knowledge of one or more infrastructure disciplines such as hardware, networking terminology, databases, deployment practices, integration, automation, scaling, resilience, and performance assessments