Lead Software Engineer, Java / AWS / Kafka, Wealth Management Digital Technology

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Wealth Management line of business, 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 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
• Lead modernization initiatives and develop re-usable public cloud deployment patterns

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
• Formal training or certification on Computer Science concepts and 7+ years applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced knowledge of Java or other general purposes programming languages
• Experience with container platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, public cloud)
• Experience of RESTful API design, microservice oriented architecture
• Proficiency in SQL databases (e.g. MS SQL Server, Oracle, Postgres)
• 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.)

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
• Practical cloud native experience (e.g. AWS)
• Experience of messaging technologies (e.g. Kafka, MQ)
• UI Development experience in JavaScript frameworks (e.g. AngularJS, ReactJS)