As a Lead Software Engineer, you will design and develop software solutions, lead engineering teams, and ensure high-quality production code in cloud and Big Data environments. You will drive the adoption of new technologies, improve operational stability, and foster a culture of diversity and inclusion within the team.
Job Description
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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Chief Technology office, 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
- 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
- Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
- Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Hands on experience, focusing on cloud and Big Data environments.
- Experience in leading and managing software engineering teams with successful project delivery.
- Proficiency in programming languages like Python or Java, with cloud-native development experience.
- Expertise in AWS services (Data Lakes, EMR, EKS/ECS, Glue) and Hadoop ecosystem tools.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform for cloud resource management.
- Strong understanding of SDLC, agile methodologies, CI/CD, and exposure to AI and machine learning applications.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Familiarity with Cloudera Data Platform
- Familiarity with Databricks and Open Table formats like Iceberg, Delta Lake
- AWS Cloud Certification will be plus
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
Top Skills
AWS
Cloudera Data Platform
Databricks
Hadoop
Java
Python
Terraform
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