Lead Software Engineer - Java, AWS

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the CONSUMER & COMMUNITY BANKING Deposits 2.0 platform, 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 external vendors, startups, and internal teams 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

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on Java concepts and 5+ years applied experience. In addition, demonstrated coaching and mentoring experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Proficiency with programming languages like Java is a must, SQL and experience in Spring boot, Micro services, AWS
• Hands-on experience in RDBMS; Oracle or PostgresSQL
•  Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Hands-on experience in AWS EC2, AWS Lambda, AWS KMS, AWS ECS, AWS EKS, AWS S3, EMR, Athena, SQS, EventBridge, PostgresSQL 
• Hands-on experience with Cloud Infrastructure Provisioning Tools like Terraform & Cloud Formation etc
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Cloud certification 
• Practical cloud native experience
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems