Lead Software Engineer - Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Python/Java - Athena Cloud Engineer

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Banking - Markets Technology - Athena team, 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

• Aligning technical strategy with other partner teams across the bank to deliver a complete and coherent experience for Athena Developers
• Execute 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
• Partner with a global team of engineers through a transformation of the Athena Core Platform to a resilient and scalable cloud based architecture
• Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Lead communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive 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

• Working knowledge of load balancing and service orchestration, both on-prem and in public cloud environments
• Proficient in one or more general-purpose programming languages such as Python, Java
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Practical Cloud-native and Kubernetes experience
• In-depth knowledge of Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience running Kubernetes (AWS EKS) at large scale for financial organizations where scaling, resiliency, security, monitoring and audit trail etc. will be prioritized 
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code products, preferably Terraform
• Experience in one or more public cloud platforms (ideally AWS)
• Experience in DevOps will be considered an advantage