Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software Engineer – JPMorgan Chase

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Cybersecurity Technology and Controls 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.

We are seeking a highly skilled Lead Software Engineer with expertise in deploying, monitoring, and managing machine‑learning models in production environments. This role involves working with cutting‑edge technologies to ensure scalable, reliable, and efficient AI solutions. The ideal candidate will be adept at building robust infrastructure and processes to support the seamless operation of machine‑learning models. In this role, you will be responsible for automating model deployment, optimizing infrastructure, and ensuring the continuous performance of AI systems.

Your ability to collaborate with cross‑functional teams and address operational challenges will be crucial to driving innovation and delivering impactful AI solutions.

• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams, including data scientists and software engineers, to understand model requirements and integrate them into applications.
• Develop and implement strategies for deploying machine learning models into production, ensuring scalability, reliability, and efficiency.
• Design and maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to automate the testing, deployment, and updating of machine learning models.
• Manage and optimize the infrastructure required for running machine learning models, including cloud services, containerization (e.g., Docker), and orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes).
• Implement monitoring and logging solutions to track model performance, detect anomalies, and ensure models are operating as expected in production.
• Maintain version control for models and data, ensuring traceability and compliance with governance policies and ensure that deployed models adhere to security best practices and comply with relevant regulations and standards.
• Execute creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems.
• Develop secure high‑quality production code, and review and debug code written by others.
• Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems.
• Lead communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading‑edge technologies.

• Obtain 6+ years of applied experience and/or certification in cybersecurity/engineering concepts, Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, with relevant experience in ML Ops or related roles.
• Advanced Python Programming Skills including Pandas, Numpy, and Scikit‑Learn.
• Proficiency in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for machine learning workflows.
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security.
• Expertise in cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack).
• Excellent problem‑solving skills and attention to detail and strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with cross‑functional teams.
• Hands‑on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.