Lead Software Engineer - Java, AWS, SQL

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Bank's Global Banking Technology team, you play a crucial role in an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering trusted, market-leading technology products that are secure, stable, and scalable. As a key technical contributor, you are tasked with implementing critical technology solutions across multiple technical domains, supporting various business functions to achieve 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

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Experience in the Software Development Life Cycle, including hands-on development experience
• Hands-on experience in Java/J2EE, REST Services, Spring boot
• Strong experience writing complex SQL queries, joins, CTE, window functions, and stored procedures.
• Hands-on experience in public cloud - AWS and extensive experience with ECS, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch, Eventbridge, and Step Functions, as well as infrastructure automation using Terraform
• Proficiency in designing and implementing RESTful APIs for enterprise-scale applications.
• Ability to design software systems using object-oriented principles and practices.
• Experience in building Decoupled Systems. Proficiency in using design patterns and technologies to decouple system components, enhancing flexibility and maintainability.
• Proficiency in unit testing frameworks such as JUnit and Mockito for ensuring code quality.
• Knowledge of messaging platforms such as Apache Kafka

• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Spinnaker, GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
• Familiarity with DevOps practices, containerization and orchestration
• Experience with SQL performance tuning, JDBC, and ORM frameworks (Hibernate/JPA)
• Exposure to Spring Batch, Spring Boot, microservices patterns, and REST API development