Manager of Software Engineering - Java/DevOps/AWS

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As a Manager of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within the Asset and Wealth Management - Asset and Wealth Management Technology & Operations team, you will be an integral part of an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner.

Job responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with engineers to design, build, and deploy applications aligned with business and functional requirements.
  • Contribute to Java-based microservices using streaming, non-blocking, and reactive programming paradigms; write production-quality code.
  • Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.
  • Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.
  • Work with Kafka, IBM MQ, Kubernetes (K8s), Redis, Amazon MSK, and AWS services to deliver scalable, efficient systems.
  • Support domain-driven design adoption and participate in architectural discussions.
  • Contribute to technical documentation and service APIs (Swagger/OpenAPI), ensuring strong logging, auditability, security, and monitoring.
  • Participate in API design sessions and help select appropriate design patterns and integration approaches.
  • Engage in code reviews; promote TDD/BDD practices to ensure maintainability and quality.
  • Assist in demonstrating service scalability and resilience using mock frameworks, performance testing, and related tools.
  • Lead communities of practice across Software Engineering to promote awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
  • Add to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience. In addition, demonstrated coaching and mentoring experience.
  • Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
  • Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices
  • 8+ years of software engineering experience building distributed systems with large data volumes and real-time distribution.
  • Solid Java proficiency with a strong willingness to code hands-on.
  • Practical understanding of CI/CD, DevOps toolchains, and agile, test-driven delivery.
  • Hands-on experience with reactive, non-blocking, streaming Java; microservices; domain-driven design; and cloud technologies.
  • Experience with:
    • Caching: Redis, GemFire, or Apache Ignite
    • Messaging/streaming: Kafka, IBM MQ
  • Working knowledge of microservices, REST APIs, SQL and NoSQL databases, and event-driven architectures.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

  • Experience with the Spring ecosystem and AWS cloud services.
  • Familiarity with trading systems; exposure to the FIX protocol is a plus.
  • Ability to solve complex, mission-critical problems with a pragmatic, hands-on approach.
  • Continuous learner and early adopter of emerging technologies and methodologies.