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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Asset and Wealth Management, 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
- Leads design and development of Python services, APIs, and tooling to improve CI/CD, deployment orchestration, and developer productivity on AWS
- Architects scalable, secure microservices and batch workflows using AWS services; ensures best practices for networking, identity, and security
- Owns Infrastructure as Code with Terraform (modules, state management, environments); establishes standards, reviews, and automation for plans/apply
- Builds integrations with enterprise systems and AWS services in Python; create reusable SDKs, CLI tools, templates, and libraries
- Implements policy-as-code, audit logging, compliance controls; enforce RBAC and secure secrets handling across applications and infrastructure
- Optimizes deployment strategies (canary, blue/green), rollbacks, approvals, and gates within CI/CD pipelines using AWS-native tools
- Drives automated testing (unit, integration, contract) with Python frameworks; manages test data and continuous quality gates
- Ensures reliability and observability with logging, metrics, tracing, alerts; defines SLOs and error budgets
- Champions performance tuning and cost optimization across compute, storage, and networking
- Leads code reviews, mentorship, and technical guidance; collaborates with product, platform, security, and SRE teams
- Contributes to roadmap, estimation, and delivery plans; manages technical risk, debt, and cross-team dependencies
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Strong experience with CI/CD platforms, strong architectural design, documentation, and stakeholder communication skills
- Proficiency in one or more: Python, Java/Kotlin, Node.js/TypeScript
- In-depth experience designing, deploying, and managing solutions on AWS, including VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, Lambda, and networking/security best practices
- Hands-on expertise with infrastructure-as-code using Terraform for provisioning and managing cloud resources
- Proficient in containerization with Docker, including building, optimizing, and securing container images
- Strong background in orchestrating and scaling workloads using Kubernetes RBAC, and cluster management
- Familiarity with multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) and integrating cloud-native services into CI/CD pipelines
- Expertise in pipeline design, deployment strategies, and release governance in regulated environments
- Security-first mindset: secrets management, RBAC, OIDC/SAML, compliance, audit, and policy-as-code (OPA)
- Observability: logs, metrics, tracing (Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry)
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience with API Gateway, container orchestration, server less, Terraform Cloud/Enterprise, and security best practices in AWS
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What We Do
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $3.7 trillion and operations worldwide. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small businesses, commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase & Co. serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan and Chase brands.
Technology fuels every aspect of our company and is at the heart of everything we do. With over 50,000 technologists globally and an annual tech spend of $12 billion, we are dedicated to improving the design, analytics, development, coding, testing and application programming that goes into creating high quality software and new products.
Learn more about technology at our firm, explore resources from our Distinguished Engineers, AI & ML researchers, and other experts; access the latest episode of our TechTrends podcast, and more at www.jpmorgan.com/technology. Information about JPMorgan Chase & Co. is available at www.jpmorganchase.com.
©2023 JPMorgan Chase & Co. All rights reserved. JPMorgan Chase is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans.
Why Work With Us
Our technologists work on a diverse range of solutions that include strategic technology initiatives, big data, mobile, electronic payments, machine learning, cybersecurity, enterprise cloud development, and other state-of-the-art technologies.
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