Senior Lead Cloud Software Engineer

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Job Description

We are looking for someone who is passionate about cloud engineering and is looking to join us on our journey in building tools and platforms which can improve developer productivity and help accelerate cloud adoption and application modernization at the firm.

As a Senior Lead of Software Engineering (Cloud Platforms) at JPMorgan Chase, you will provide technical direction and leadership to an agile team to enhance, build, and deliver tools and platform products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Leverage your advanced technical capabilities and interpersonal skills to collaborate with partners and stakeholders across the organization to drive best-in-class outcomes across various cloud tooling and platform development efforts for development teams within the firm.

The Cloud Engineering organization is focused on accelerating cloud adoption, enhancing developer experience and accelerating modernization of applications by building and enhancing tools and platforms to increase efficiency, reduce operational overhead and improve developer productivity. We are looking for someone who can identify opportunities for improvement, architect and develop solutions and partner with our stakeholders, partners and customers to drive implementation and adoption.

You will be hands on developing tools and platforms aimed at improving the developer experience for thousands of developers within our organization. You'll join an inspiring and curious team of technologists spread across the globe, who are focused on building solutions to provide paved paths for our application developers on their cloud migration journey.

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

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• A desire to lead and develop a team of software engineers and help them achieve their potential
• Hands-on experience with cloud computing platform providers AWS/Azure/GCP (AWS preferred)
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tooling (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Advanced knowledge of containerization and container orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes/EKS)
• Proficiency with developing microservices (Java or Python)

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience architecting cloud applications for scalability and high availability
• Experience with event-driven applications (Apache Kafka)
• Experience designing & building telemetry & logging capabilities for cloud platforms
• Certifications in target areas (Cloud/Kubernetes/IaC etc)

About Us

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.

About the Team

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.