Lead Software Engineer - Python, AWS, Data, Agentic AI

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Corporate Sector, 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

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on Software Engineering and application development and 7+ years applied experience

• Strong hands-on expertise in Python and/or Java with demonstrated delivery of secure, high-quality production code

• Strong experience building cloud-native solutions on AWS (compute, storage, security/IAM, networking, observability)

• Strong experience with LLMs and agentic systems, including orchestration patterns, tool/function calling, retrieval, structured outputs, evaluations, and safety/guardrails

• Experience building data-intensive applications and workflows using Databricks (Spark, Delta, jobs/workflows)

• Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and React for building modern web applications

• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods; strong SDLC discipline (CI/CD, testing, code quality, release controls)

• Advanced understanding of agile delivery, application resiliency, and secure engineering practices

• Strong system design skills with the ability to make pragmatic trade-offs and drive alignment across stakeholders