Lead Software Engineer - Java/AWS

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As a Lead Software Engineer - Java/AWS at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer and Community Banking, you will play a crucial role in an agile team dedicated to improving, developing, and providing reliable, cutting-edge technology solutions that are secure, stable, and scalable.

Job responsibilities:

• Provide direction, oversight, and coaching for a team of entry-level to mid-level engineers working on basic to moderately complex tasks
• 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
• Executes the delivery of software development as a lead on an agile team
• Triage technical issues and work toward solving problems
• 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 of applied experience 
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s) (Backend: JAVA, Spring Boot Framework, AWS Cloud, UI technology stack - React JS or Angular, CSS/HTML, etc.) 
• Proficient designing, developing and maintaining event driven systems using Apache Kafka or AWS MSK.
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
• Understand building internet scale platforms from ground up, with strong background knowledge of OOP & SOA principles, enterprise design patterns and industry best practices (using modern technology e.g., JAVA, Cassandra, Kafka, micro services, APIs, etc.) 
• Practical cloud native experience (e.g., proficiency with AWS services - EKS, ECS, Dynamo Db, Cassandra, Lambda, S3, etc.)
• Demonstrate proficiency in application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Exposure to AI based Code Assist tools and AI/ML solutions
• Familiarity with Graph databases.