Senior Lead Software Engineer (Java, Kafka, JMS, AWS)

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...