Sr Lead Software Engineer

Job Description

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Cloud Foundational Services 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. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications. You will build a technologist friendly next generation, segmented, Software Defined Network and Private Cloud Foundational Infrastructure.  You’ll join a collaborative multi-disciplinary team is composed of mission oriented Product Managers, Engineers, Solution Architects, and Technical Program Managers.  

Job responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software  Development Life Cycle
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
• Applies deep technical knowledge and problem-solving methodologies to analyze complex data/systems, anticipate issues, and mitigate risks
• Works with other Engineering teams and platforms to architect and rapidly iterate on designs, patterns, or changes required to resolve issues and modernize the organization and its technology processes
• Solves problems, not deliver fixes and provides technical guidance and strategic direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 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
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s)
• 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
• Practical cloud native experience
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
• Advanced knowledge of Reliability Engineering, testing automation, one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, etc.), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, etc), Software Defined Networks & Network Security domain knowledge including VNFs, CNFs, CNIs (Cilium, OVH, Calico, etc), SASE, Micro and Macro Segmentation/Zero Trust; and other infrastructure technologies (e.g., hardware, databases,  storage, identity, cloud infrastructure)
• Hyper-scaling in a enterprise cloud environment

 
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with secure coding, AppSec, threat modeling, code testing, third party cyber security controls / testing, threat / risk assessment, vulnerabilities/weaknesses, and penetration testing (for Security Engineers)
• Network domain / engineering experience with underlay and overlay topologies at scale.  Experience with Policy as code frameworks / tooling (OPA, Kyverno, etc)
• Experience to rapidly evolving start up style organizations within a large regulated firm

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.