Lead Software Engineer - Java, AWS, kdb+

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Commercial and Investment Bank , 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

• Work across entire software development lifecycle: requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, deployment and handover to support teams.

• Join the cloud adoption journey.

• 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.

• Manage requirements, specifications, and design documents

• Handle release and stakeholder management

• Involve in L3 support for Production environments

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

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

• Strong analytical development skills, solid understanding of computer science fundamentals. Strong development experience in Java and public cloud offering

• Comfortable working with Linux based environments and having good knowledge of Unix/Linux commands and shell scripting

• A strong passion for infrastructure as code and associated automation and provisioning tools like Terraform, Ansible 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

• Good understanding of CI/CD pipeline build, improvement and management

• Experience with GIT, Jira, Confluence, Wiki. Excellent verbal & written communication skills

• Experience working in a team with a strong software development process (build, test, deploy)

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Knowledge of KDB/q is a plus.

• Preferred experience in Cloud Infrastructure and related technologies

• Good understanding of FIX and other financial messaging protocols is preferred