Lead Software Engineer - Python, AWS, Terraform

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Asset and Wealth Management, 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

• Leads design and development of Python services, APIs, and tooling to improve CI/CD, deployment orchestration, and developer productivity on AWS
• Architects scalable, secure microservices and batch workflows using AWS services; ensures best practices for networking, identity, and security
• Owns Infrastructure as Code with Terraform (modules, state management, environments); establishes standards, reviews, and automation for plans/apply
• Builds integrations with enterprise systems and AWS services in Python; create reusable SDKs, CLI tools, templates, and libraries
• Implements policy-as-code, audit logging, compliance controls; enforce RBAC and secure secrets handling across applications and infrastructure
• Optimizes deployment strategies (canary, blue/green), rollbacks, approvals, and gates within CI/CD pipelines using AWS-native tools
• Drives automated testing (unit, integration, contract) with Python frameworks; manages test data and continuous quality gates
• Ensures reliability and observability with logging, metrics, tracing, alerts; defines SLOs and error budgets
• Champions performance tuning and cost optimization across compute, storage, and networking
• Leads code reviews, mentorship, and technical guidance; collaborates with product, platform, security, and SRE teams
• Contributes to roadmap, estimation, and delivery plans; manages technical risk, debt, and cross-team dependencies

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Strong experience with CI/CD platforms, strong architectural design, documentation, and stakeholder communication skills
• Proficiency in one or more: Python, Java/Kotlin, Node.js/TypeScript
• In-depth experience designing, deploying, and managing solutions on AWS, including VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, Lambda, and networking/security best practices
• Hands-on expertise with infrastructure-as-code using Terraform for provisioning and managing cloud resources
• Proficient in containerization with Docker, including building, optimizing, and securing container images
• Strong background in orchestrating and scaling workloads using Kubernetes RBAC, and cluster management
• Familiarity with multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) and integrating cloud-native services into CI/CD pipelines
• Expertise in pipeline design, deployment strategies, and release governance in regulated environments
• Security-first mindset: secrets management, RBAC, OIDC/SAML, compliance, audit, and policy-as-code (OPA)
• Observability: logs, metrics, tracing (Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry)

• Experience with API Gateway, container orchestration, server less, Terraform Cloud/Enterprise, and security best practices in AWS