What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Software Engineer - Java, API & AWS position at JPMorgan Chase?
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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer & Community Bank - Consumer Card 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 internal & external stakeholders 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
- Develops & executes on technical strategy to drive value for Chase credit card strategic partners.
- Thought leadership, design thinking and an API-first mindset
- Partners and collaborates with cross functional teams across product, engineering & architecture to develop smart, scalable solutions for partners and customers.
- Champions the firm’s culture of opportunity, inclusion, and respect
- Takes ownership of team and problem solves proactively think long-term.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5 years applied experience
- Hands on experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical software engineering problems
- Proficiency in multiple modern programming languages specifically Java and J2EE stack
- Experience with Cloud technologies (AWS, Google Cloud)
- Experience building SaaS, PaaS platforms, tools & services for engineers.
- Advanced knowledge of architecture & application design processes
- Strong coding fundamentals – Algorithms & Data Structures
- Experience with building APIs - RESTful APIs, Web Services, Spring Boot
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience working in a fast-paced Agile environment.
- Passion for automating & excelling at identifying gaps in processes.
- Demonstrated experience influencing across highly matrixed, complex organizations.
- Ability to deconstruct & communicate complex or abstract technology concepts in a clear way to non-technical stakeholders.
- Track record of effective risk and dependency management