Lead Software Engineer - Cloud Strategy

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Software Engineering

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Full time

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan

Chase within the Consumer and Community Banking - Deposits 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.

Job responsibilities

* Shape the end-to-end AWS cloud architecture strategy across all product components.

* Advance the resiliency strategy - multi-region, active-active, failover/failback, and DR.

* Strengthen cloud cost strategy and optimization across the product, Evolve the automation and infrastructure-as-code strategy.

* Mature AI integration across engineering and product workflows, Drive scalability strategy to meet growth and peak-demand requirements.

* Harden cloud security strategy and regulatory-grade controls.

* Deepen observability and chaos engineering practices.

* Raise the bar on shared architectural standards and decision-making across teams.

* Sharpen how complex technical strategy is distilled into leadership-facing narratives.

* Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.

* Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

* Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience

* Deep, broad AWS expertise across compute, data, networking, and security, with proven production architecture work.

* Systems thinking - reasoning about trade-offs, failure modes, and dependencies across an entire product.

* Strategic command of cost, scalability, automation, and AI integration as connected levers.

* Hands-on depth to validate and prototype ideas, not just advise.

* Executive communication and rigorous, independent judgment in a regulated, high-stakes environment.

* Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)

* Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.

* Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

* In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems

* Practical cloud native experience