Lead Software Engineer - Full Stack / AWS

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As a Lead Software Engineer - Back End / AWS at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer and Community Banking - Data Technology team, 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.
• Ensure world-class reliability, security, and cost-efficiency for all products built. 
• Design, develop, and builds the next generation Data Foundation platform and product capabilities that will power various cases across Chase Consumer Banking. 
• 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 of applied experience 
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s) (e.g., Java, Scala, Golang, etc.)
• 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.)
• Strong hands-on experience in designing and implementing highly available, fault-tolerant, and performant distributed systems
• Experience with container orchestration frameworks (e.g., Kubernetes, EKS, ECS)
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
• Practical cloud native experience (e.g. AWS cloud services)

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Domain expertise in the modern data stack, including cloud-based data solutions
• Understanding of Front End tools and technologies
• Experience in modern stream processing systems (e.g., Kafka, Spar, and Flink)