What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr Lead Software Engineer - Platform Engineering position at JPMorgan Chase?
Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.
As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Payments, Proprietary Wallets, and Lending Innovation organization, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring secure, stable, and scalable technology products. Your contributions will drive significant business impact as you apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle diverse challenges across multiple technologies and applications.
Job responsibilities
- Develops and implements standards and best practices for platform engineering, deployment, and production observability across a broad range of applications within the organization.
- Collaborates with SRE, DevOps, architects, engineering directors, and senior application engineers to integrate business and technology requirements into platform engineering and deployment strategies.
- Provides regular technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
- Drives the adoption of best practices, ensuring high standards of quality, security, and efficiency are maintained across all projects.
- Develops tools and practices for ensuring adherence to application standards and approaches.
- Creates and manages POCs to evaluate the feasibility and impact of new technologies and methodologies, ensuring alignment with business goals and technical requirements.
- Leads initiatives to enhance production observability by integrating advanced monitoring and logging solutions into existing and new products.
- Explores and develops strategies for implementing cutting-edge platform engineering technologies across the organization, ensuring alignment with the firm's long-term objectives.
- Advises cross-functional teams on matters within the domain of expertise.
- Creates durable, reusable tools that are leveraged across teams and functions.
- Influences leaders and senior stakeholders across business, product, and technology teams
- Contributes to the team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts with 5 years of applied experience, including platform engineering, deployment, and observability.
- Hands-on experience building and maintaining observability tools
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Expertise in Splunk, Tableau, and related tools
- Strong skillset in AI, particularly in enhancing production observability processes.
- Advanced knowledge of software application development and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in multiple technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, Web UI, etc.).
- Experience applying expertise and new methods to determine solutions for complex technology problems in one or more technical disciplines
- Experience with cloud technologies and their integration into platform engineering and production observability processes.
- Ability to present and effectively communicate with Senior Leaders and Executives.
- Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
- Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Architecture and/or application development experience
- AWS experience