Lead Software Engineer, AWS​/Python​/Terraform

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As a Lead Software Engineer, EMR at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Sector's AI/ML & Data Platforms team, you play a crucial role in an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering reliable, market-leading technology products that are secure, stable, and scalable. In your capacity as a core technical contributor, you will be responsible for implementing critical technology solutions across various technical domains to support the firm's business objectives.

You will also take on a leadership role by offering technical coaching and guidance to diverse technical teams, while proactively anticipating the needs and potential dependencies of other functions across the firm.

• Provide overall direction, oversight, and coaching for a team of entry-level to mid-level software engineers that work on basic to moderately complex tasks
• Be accountable for decisions that influence teams' resources, budget, tactical operations, and the execution and implementation of processes and procedures
• Explore, design, evaluate and implement secure Data Lake solutions within an AWS environment, including new offered features
• Execute 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 and creates secure and high-quality production code, that maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems with reviewing and debugging code written by others
• Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints - met by software code development
• Gathers, analyze, synthesize and develops visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems
• Identifies and mitigates issues to execute a book of work while escalating issues as necessary
• Provides input to leadership regarding budget, approach, and technical considerations to improve operational efficiencies and functionality for the team
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Hands‑on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability with AWS EMR, Glue, Athena, Redshift and Lake Formation.
• Experience working at code level with Python, Terraform - focusing on clean efficient code and best practices for scalability.
• Advanced in coding one or more programming language(s) (i.e., Python, Java, etc.) and database querying languages.
• Experience designing, developing and maintaining production‑grade AWS cloud solutions.
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in‑depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Demonstrate knowledge in developing, debugging and maintaining code in large corporate environment, with one or more modern programming languages and databases
• Overall knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle, including agile methodologies with CI/CD to rapidly build & test application code, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Ability to guide and coach teams on approach to achieve goals aligned against a set of strategic initiatives
• Experience with leading, hiring, developing, and recognizing technology talented teams

• Experience working at code level, with code reviews to strive for improvements in software engineering quality
• Knowledge working with PCI and sensitive data workloads
• Understand database maintenance and ability to write SQL queries, messaging platforms, and knowledge in Kubernetes
• AWS Solutions Architect/ Developer or any advanced level…