Lead Software Engineer - Python

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Sector's Infrastructure Platform, 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 applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s)-python, Go 
• Experience with document-oriented database products: MongoDB, MarkLogic, DocumentDB etc
• Practical experience of architecting & developing applications or platforms on any one of the major public cloud providers (AWS, Google, Azure).
• Knowledge and experience of industry wide technology strategies and best practices
• Unit-testing framework(s) & BDD/TDD
• Infrastructure-as-code experience – Terraform, Ansible, Puppet and/or Salt
• Understanding and experience of Agile and Lean philosophies including experience with JIRA, YouTrack and/or similar
• Experience of Python frameworks - Django/Flask etc.
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security

• Experience with relational databases
• CI/CD pipelines preferably including Jenkins, Bamboo and/or Spinnaker
• Experience with Pivotal Cloud Foundry (including IBM WebSphere) and/or Heroku
• Experience with core services including Active Directory, Kerberos and DNS