What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Lead Software Engineer (Java, Kafka, JMS, AWS) position at JPMorgan Chase?
Transform your career by enhancing and migrating our trade processing platform to a cloud-native code-base.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Investment Banking, you play a crucial role in an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering trusted, market-leading technology products that are secure, stable, and scalable.. 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 software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
- Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems
- Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development
- Gathers, analyzes, synthesizes, and develops visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems
- Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture
- Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
- Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
- Adds 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
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
- Advanced coding with Java 11 and advanced capabilities with relational databases such as Oracle, PostgresQL, and Mongo DB
- Experience with event-driven development, Kafka and messaging systems such as Java Messaging System (JMS)
- Strong experience developing applications built on microservices architecture while working across a globally distributed team
- Ability to communicate effectively across different organization levels for technical and non-technical audiences, peers, and leadership teams.
- Experience with AWS ecosystem and application migrations from on-premise and hybrid solutions to fully cloud-native applications.
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
- Ability to contribute directly to coding, code reviews, and technical team delivery while partnering with management and stakeholders to ensure delivery is aligned with overall team objectives.