Lead Software Engineer - Java

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As a Lead Software Engineer - Java at JPMorganChase within the Consumer and Community Banking - Connected Commerce 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.
• Writes secure and high-quality code using the syntax of at least one programming language.
• Designs, develops, codes, and troubleshoots with consideration of upstream and downstream systems and technical implications.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain to improve the value realized by automation.
• Applies technical troubleshooting to break down solutions and solve relative complex technical problems.
• Gathers, analyzes, and draws conclusions from large, diverse data sets to identify problems and contribute to decision-making in service of secure, stable application development.
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Drives evaluation sessions with external vendors and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and 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.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages.
• Proficient level coding in Java and Sprint Boot, with good understanding of Spring Cloud concepts.
• Hands-on experience to utilize monitoring and tracing tools (e.g. Splunk, Dynatrace, Postman, etc).
  Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence/machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Experience across the whole Software Development Life Cycle.
• Exposure to agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security.
• Participate in code reviews, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
• Contribute to system architecture and technical decision-making.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Proven expertise in architecting and delivering highly scalable, resilient, and stable systems on public cloud platforms such as AWS.
• Extensive experience with event-driven messaging and streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka), both NoSQL and relational databases, and cloud-native API/microservice development.
• Strong hands-on proficiency with modern software development tools and technologies, including Jira, Confluence, IntelliJ IDEA, Maven, Git, Jenkins, Sonar, Artifactory, and AI-powered code assistants.