What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manager of Software Engineering - Java/DevOps/AWS position at JPMorgan Chase?
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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.
- 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.
- 8 years of software development experience.
- 5 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.