Lead Software Engineer - AWS/Data

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Legal Technology 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

• 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


• Develop solutions using AWS Cloud Services for compute, storage, databases, and security


• 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


• Improve and debug backend performance bottlenecks


• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience


• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability


• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle


• Advanced experience in Python and distributed computing frameworks such as PySpark 


• Expertise working on AWS Cloud Based applications development using EC2, EKS, RDS Aurora MySQL & Postgres, DynamoDB, and Kinesis


• Hands-on experience building AWS data pipelines using Lambda, SQS, SNS, Athena, Glue, EMR


• Strong understanding of AWS networking, security, IAM roles, monitoring and application debugging 


• Proficiency with ETL tools such as Abinitio, Informatica, or SSIS


• Data analytics tools such as Splunk, Cloudwatch, Datadog metrics


• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods


• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security

• Knowledge of deploying and scaling ML and AI Models on Public cloud services


• Knowledge of AWS Sagemaker 


• Event driven architecture using Kafka