Lead Software Engineer- SRE

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 Consumer & Community Banking Administration, you will be a key member of our agile team. Your role will involve enhancing, building, and delivering trusted technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You will play a crucial role in maximizing the value of cloud-agnostic solutions, ensuring architectural designs are resilient and stable. You will also be involved in data-promoten analysis, monitoring, and visibility solutions. Your role will include building and deploying Infrastructure as code in CI/CD, automating processes, and conducting blameless Root Cause Analysis. You will collaborate with diverse teams and explore emerging technologies such as AI. This role provides an opportunity to influence modern designs, develop, test, and deploy applications and cloud-microservices, transforming the business processes and user experience for JPMorgan Chase’s Customer Acquisition and Marketing Platform.

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 equity and respect.
• Reviews architecture and design artifacts for complex applications, accountable for ensuring where appropriate highly resilient stable designs.
• Gathers, analyzes, synthesizes, and develops visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems to produce standardized metrics to show application health and break point volumes.
• Reviews all Applications issues/Infrastructure failures as part of RCA process, understands true scope and develops/implements remediation plans.
• Ensures all deployments have scalable architected designs and there are no choke point capacity issues.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
• Required SRE experience in a cloud environment.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Advanced in one or more programming languages like Python, Shell scripting, Java.
• 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.).
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems.
• Strong communication & presentation skills with an ability to articulate technical matters to a broad audience.
• Practical cloud deployment experience in AWS Cloud services and data technologies such as AWS EMR, Glue, Lambda, MSK, RDS, Document DB, EC2, EKS, ECS, Oracle, Aurora, Dynamo DB, etc.

Additional qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Understanding of database design concepts (Pluggable DBs) and data modeling for relational or non-relational databases such as RDBMS (Oracle/Postgres), NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra) or NewSQL (Cockroach DB) and search DBs like Elasticsearch incorporating multi-master across multi-regions.
• Understanding of data design & modeling principles as well as architecture patterns such as data lake, lakehouse, data mart, data fabric and data mesh with experience in Data migrations and Open/Linked data media types such as RDF, Turtle, JSON-LD will be useful.
• Experience with deploying to public and/or private cloud ideally with multi-cloud experience, ideally Cloud agnostic (Snowflake or another public cloud) and Active/Active across region designs, AWS Solution Developer, DevOps, FinOps Certificates etc. is a plus.
• Experience in one or more big data processing frameworks such as Spark, Flink, Storm etc. with stream processing experience using Kafka.
• Understand the power of AI/ML against appropriate data to drive operational excellence.

ABOUT US

Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America’s households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve all their financial needs.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set, and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or veteran status, age, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

Equal Opportunity Employer // Veterans

ABOUT THE TEAM

Our Consumer & Community Banking division serves our Chase customers through a range of financial services, including personal banking, credit cards, mortgages, auto financing, investment advice, small business loans and payment processing. We’re proud to lead the U.S. in credit card sales and deposit growth and have the most-used digital solutions – all while ranking first in customer satisfaction.