Lead Software Engineer - Terraform, Python, Kubernetes

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank, Securities Services Technology, 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 breakdown technical problems

• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others

• 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.

• 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

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

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

• Extensive experience in building and running AWS/public cloud based applications

• Solid programming skills with Python

• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability

• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods and all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle

• Experience of pipelines and DAG's (Directed Acyclic graph) for processing data and/or machine learning

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

• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT system.

• 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

• Experience with Cloud services, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and containerized application development

• Familiarity with relational databases (e.g., Postgres) and AWS services such as S3, EKS, SageMaker, and Bedrock

• Practical experience with Kubernetes, EKS, Docker, Kafka, MLOps and Large Language Model Operations (LLMOps)

• Experience working on AIML systems and/or prior experience collaborating with data scientists