Lead Software Engineer - Java & AWS

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Enterprise Technology Finance Risk Data and Controls, 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, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience
• Experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Experience in Java programming
• 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, Applicant Resiliency, and Security
• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Build Micro services that will run on the bank’s internal cloud and the public cloud platform
• Working proficiency in test/Behavior driven development and knowledge of testing frameworks like Mockito, Junit, Cucumber, etc. 
• Experience with code repository, IDE, developmental toolsets and CI/CD pipelines

• Developer or Solutions Architect Level AWS Certification
• Familiarity with any of these Observability tools: Splunk, Datadog, Dynatrace, or Grafana
• Familiarity with distributed databases like AWS DynamoDB, Cassandra, CockroachD
• Experience of implementing end to end solutions/products using Cloud technologies (AWS preferred)