Lead Software Engineer - Payments Technology, Investment and Commercial Bank

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Payments Technology in Commercial and Investment Bank, you play a crucial role in an agile team dedicated to improving, developing, and providing reliable, cutting-edge technology products that are secure, stable, and scalable. As a key technical contributor, you will be tasked with implementing essential technology solutions across diverse technical domains, supporting various business functions to achieve the firm's strategic goals.

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

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Formal Training and certification on software engineering and 10+ years of applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Working experience in micro-services based highly scalable systems
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Experience in creating highly scalable, reliable and robust systems which are 24x7x365 available
• Solid Java/J2EE development experience on large/medium sized projects
• Very strong fundamentals on Core Java and related technologies
• Experience in distributed messaging technology like Kafka, IBM MQ, etc. Experience in database design and working knowledge on Oracle and experience in AWS cloud and Kubernetes

• Strong understanding of software development methodologies, including Agile and DevOps practices
• Banking domain knowledge with a preference for payment systems
• Very good written and verbal communication skills
• Must have led technical development teams for delivery of projects
• Culturally sensitive in a role that spans regions and time zones