Lead Software Engineer - Cloud Success

JPMorgan Chase & Co.•Palo Alto, CA

19h

About The Position

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Bank Cloud Success 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.

Requirements

Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience
Hands-on experience with AWS, including solution architecture and engineering
Proficiency in writing Terraform scripts and managing Cloud infrastructure
Experience with distributed systems, microservices, Kubernetes, and containers
Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages such as Python database querying languages
Ability to troubleshoot problems independently and learn from failures
Experience in Agile methodologies, AWS cloud, Snowflake, Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines
Knowledge of recent AI developments and their application in cloud environments
Strong organizational skills and effective communication abilities
Practical cloud-native experience and familiarity with internal tools like Atlas
Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

Nice To Haves

Hands-on experience with Snowflake or Databricks in production environments
Experience with observability/monitoring tools such as Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or Prometheus
Ability to hop from project to project, providing consulting and value-added services across teams; must remain flexible and willing to change directions rapidly
Familiarity with regulatory requirements and applications within the financial industry
Associate level certification or higher, such as AWS Solutions Architect Associate, SnowPro Core Certification or Databricks Certificate

Responsibilities

Provide technical guidance and direction to support business objectives, collaborating with technical teams, contractors, and vendors
Develop secure, high-quality production code, and review and debug code written by others
Drive decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
Serve as a subject matter expert in AWS, Terraform, and cloud-native technologies
Advocate for firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices within the Software Development Life Cycle
Influence peers and project decision-makers to adopt leading-edge technologies
Foster a team culture of customer obsession, embodying the ethos of "kind first, then right"
Operate independently, without constant direction, and adapt to changing project needs as an internal consultant focused on delivering results and adding value