Lead Software Engineer - Java - Tech Lead Job Jersey City area,New Jersey USA,Software Development

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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 Dev Ops 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 No

SQL / Big Data 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 Dev Ops tools and practices
Knowledge of container-based development, orchestration, microservices frameworks, and tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Spring Boot, Swagger) is a plus