Senior Lead Software Engineer - Java/AWS

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 Digital Banking organization, 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. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

Job responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors


• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others


• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes


• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software  Development Life Cycle


• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies


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


• Provide leadership and direction for the Technical delivery of project objectives and changes to meet business requirements


• Provide oversight and leadership for data movement and transformative development activities


• Provide high quality technology solutions that address business needs and manage code quality for total build effort


• Design software to produce scalable and resilient technical designs


• Create Automated Unit Tests using Flexible/Open Source Frameworks using a Test Driven Development (TDD)/ Domain Driven Design (DDD)

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, operational stability, and data and infrastructure architecture disciplines


• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight


• Hands-on development and leading a team of software engineers


• Advanced knowledge of architecture, design across all systems and multi-threaded Programming knowledge


• Ability to work in large, collaborative teams to achieve organizational goals, and passionate about building an innovative culture


• Hands-on Experience in Micro Services Design and Development - adhering to Cloud principles such as AWS


• Implementation knowledge of managing asynchronous communication using Kafka or other JMS broker solutions to achieve similar result


• RDBMS experience preferably with Oracle and experience with Code Reviews – PMD, JUNIT, Performance, Memory Management


• Knowledge of Agile Development approach and working experience with continuous integration/development using Jenkins/Maven


• Expertise in Java (8 or above), spring boot, spring-core, Hibernate, RESTful, GraphQL, Kafka, Oracle, NoSql, Maven, Jenkins, GIT, mockito, jacoco

• Experience with developing frameworks to increase developer and release velocity, improve code health and technical standards


• Knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems


• Understanding of financial control and budget management


• Experience working with containers including Kubernetes and Docker