Lead Software Engineer - Core Java Lead; Tech

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank, 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.

• 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
• Mentor and manage a high-performance delivery team, providing technical direction and ensuring high quality deliverables
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading‑edge technologies
• Perform code reviews, develop and review test scenarios in collaboration with QA
• Ensure the team delivers timely key milestones supporting a clear roadmap and requirements
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

• Formal training or certification in Software Engineering and 5+ years applied experience.
• 8+ years of software development experience.
• Hands‑on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• 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
• Planning and managing scrum teams, including facilitating Agile ceremonies, prioritizing backlogs, and supporting team delivery and collaboration.
• Ability to translate functional requirements to technical design and requirements
• Strong experience in Core Java, Object Oriented, RDBMS (Oracle), SQL, Spring, and Unix Scripts
• 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)
• Strong understanding of Agile methodology and ceremonies leveraging SDLC tools to improve development and testing efficiency (JIRA, Jenkins, GIT, JUnit, Selenium, Lint)

• Practical cloud native experience
• Experience in Cloud and Container based development (Gaia, Kube, AWS) is a plus
• Knowledge of container-based development, orchestration, microservices frameworks, and tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Spring Boot, Swagger) is a plus
• Experience optimizing No
  
  SQL / Big Data Stores (Cassandra) is a plus
• Knowledge of Reactive programming (Spring Flux) is a plus
• Banking and payments domain background is a plus