Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software Engineer - AWS/Python

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer & Community Banking, you serve as a seasoned member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You are responsible for carrying out 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
• 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 in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Hands on experience of python and developing python based applications with API
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages

• AWS Services: Proficiency in Lake formation, Glue ETL (or) EMR, S3, Glue Catalog, EC2, ECS , Load Balancer, Athena, Kinesis (or) MSK, Airflow (or) Lambda + Step Functions + Event Bridge

•   Data De/Serialization: Expertise in at least 2 of the formats: Parquet, Iceberg, AVRO, JSON-LD

• AWS Data Security: Good Understanding of security concepts such as: Lake formation, IAM, Service roles, Encryption, KMS, Secrets Manager

• Hands on experience building Java Microservices, Spark,  etc & Amazon Web Services (AWS) and associated components
• Strong data warehouse knowledge such as Snowflake, or database knowledge such as Oracle or Postgres 
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages

• Knowledge on Analytical App development: REACT / JavaScript / CSS
• Knowledge on Docker, Kubernetes etc.
• Experience having been a technical lead/mentor for a team
• Knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems 
• Must have an experience working in a team, and ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Strong written and oral communication skills; ability to communicate effectively with all levels of management and partners from a variety of business functions