Lead Software Engineer - Java & Python

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Asset & Wealth Management Marketing Team, 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:

• 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.
• Lead a team of high-potential software engineers, delivering high quality software that achieves functional objectives.
• 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 business stakeholders, 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.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends to drive innovation and continuous improvement.
• Implement data governance and best practices to ensure data quality and compliance with organizational standards.
• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
• Proficient in development skill Java 21 and Python building into the public and private cloud in CI/CD strategies.
• Hands on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods.
• Experience in Spring Boot, Kafka, Kubernetes, Splunk, Dynatrace.
• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.).
• Practical cloud native experience.
• Exposure to building AI/ML driven applications to drive business goals.
• Track record of Continuous learning mindset.
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with AWS public cloud.
• Proficiency in Agile and SRE culture.
• Working knowledge of one or more NoSQL database technologies, preferably Apache Cassandra.
• Working knowledge of one or more Messaging technologies, preferably Apache Kafka.
• Develop RESTful APIs and ensure smooth integration across internal and external services.