Lead Software Engineer - Enterprise Technology

Company: JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Location: Chicago
Posted on: November 6, 2024

Job Description:

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Sector's Chief Administrative Office Technology group, 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 and deliver reliable and high-performance services for storing and accessing large amounts of data on cloud, e.g., AWS S3, and Databricks platform.
  
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others to build the next generation optimized queries and execution engine that is fast, scalable, secure and robust.
  
• 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.
  
• Deploys, orchestrates and operates hundreds of data pipelines that provide a higher-level abstraction, eliminate operational burdens and simplify the complexity of real-world data engineering architecture.
  
• Automates and streamlines Cloud infrastructure processes and DevOps tasks while improving self-service capabilities using public cloud platform (AWS) and open source technologies.
  
• Strategizes and builds automated deployment pipelines (CI/CD) using Shell/Python scripts or tools like Jenkins, Terraform and Spinnaker.
  
• Configures observability dashboards with automated alerts and monitoring and acts quickly on any incidents.
  
• Promotes security best practices and principles to ensure that the infrastructure and data is secured at all times and contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies.
  
  Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
  
  
• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience in software engineering and development.
  
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability including deep understanding of data products and the ability to translate requirements technically.
  
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s) including full-stack capabilities, indicating a strong understanding of back-end services and Java / Python development as well.
  
• 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.).
  
• Practical cloud native experience.
  
• Strong experience with the legacy ETL toolset used in GSS (Informatica).
  
• Proficiency in developing REST APIs, microservices, in the distributed environment.
  
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems.
  
  Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
  
  
• 10+ years industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems.
  
• 3+ years of direct experience with Databricks on AWS.
  
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