Lead Software Engineer - Java - Payment Tech Lead

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Banking, Payment Tech, you will play a critical role in building, automating, and optimizing robust platforms that power our payment services. We seek proactive, detail-oriented professionals with strong ownership, excellent problem-solving skills, and the ability to deliver results under pressure. You will collaborate across teams, communicate effectively with stakeholders, and thrive in a fast-paced environment, driving innovation and continuous improvement in our platform and DevOps practices.

Job responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable and reliable payment technology platforms.
• Collaborate with development and operations teams to ensure seamless integration and delivery of new features and fixes.
• Monitor system health, performance, and security, and proactively address issues.
• Drive root cause analysis and implement solutions to improve platform stability and reliability.
• Maintain and enhance platform documentation, operational runbooks, and automation scripts.
• Participate in change management, release management, and disaster recovery planning.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory, risk, and audit requirements.
• Mentor and manage a high-performance delivery team, providing technical direction and ensuring high quality deliverables.
• Ensure the team delivers timely key milestones supporting a clear roadmap and requirements.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Formal training or certification in Software Engineering and 5+ years applied experience
• 8+ years of software development experience
• Clarify and defend architecture and design decisions and ensure they are practical and feasible to implement by the team
• Partner with technology peers and product owners and lead collaborative efforts to ensure a successful end-to-end project delivery
• Ability to translate functional requirements to technical design and requirements
• Perform code reviews, develop and review test scenarios in collaboration with QA
• Strong experience in Core Java, Object Oriented, RDBMS (Oracle), SQL, Spring, ORM (JPA/Hibernate) and Unix Scripts
• Experience in web development and modern JS Frameworks (JavaScript, HTML 5, Ember, ReactJS or Angular)
• Experience in architecting and building secure, highly available, resilient, scalable systems leveraging clustering and load balancing of web/app servers and messaging systems (Kafka / MQ Series)
• Strong understanding of Agile methodology and ceremonies leveraging SDLC tools to improve development and testing efficiency (JIRA, Jenkins, GIT, JUnit, Selenium, Lint)

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Experience in Cloud and Container based development (Gaia, Kube) is a plus
• Experience using NoSQL / BigData Stores (Cassandra, Elastic Search, Cloudera Stack or H-Base) is a plus
• Experience in streaming/aggregation frameworks (Storm, Spark) is a plus
• Banking and payments domain background is a plus
• Prefer hands-on end-to-end project delivery responsibilities
• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines to automate build, test, and deployment processes
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and monitoring using modern DevOps tools and practices
• Knowledge of container-based development, orchestration, microservices frameworks, and tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Spring Boot, Swagger) is a plus