Lead Software Engineer - Observability Platform Cloud Developer

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Wilmington, DE +1 · Corporate Sector

Lead Software Engineer for an Enterprise Observability Platforms team at JPMorgan Chase, focusing on enhancing, building, and delivering technology products. The role involves executing creative software solutions, developing secure production code, identifying automation opportunities, leading vendor evaluations, and driving communities of practice. Requires strong software engineering fundamentals, experience in system design, application development, testing, operational stability, and proficiency in cloud-native environments and agile methodologies. Experience in the financial services industry is also required.

What you'd actually do

  1. Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems.
  2. Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others.
  3. Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems.
  4. 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.
  5. Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies.

Skills

Required

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
  • Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
  • Advanced in one or more programming language(s) (e.g, Java, JavaScript, React, Python).
  • Advanced experience working with two or more from the following: web application development, database, Unix/Linux environments, distributed and parallel systems, information retrieval, networking, large scale software development, security software development, Kafka, Kubernetes, Microservices, Terraform.
  • Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods.
  • Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle.
  • Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security.
  • Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.).
  • In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems.
  • Practical cloud native experience, with cloud application deployment (AWS certification).

Nice to have

  • Experience with IBM Netcool/OMNIbus and related products.
  • Experience with Cloud based AIOPs applications (e.g. IBM CloudPak for AIOPs, SerivceNow).
  • Experience and Knowledge of Observability Products (e.g. Events and Alerts, SCOM, SMARTS, IBM Tivoli).
  • Knowledge of automation and scripting languages (e.g. Python, Ansible).
  • Experience with related tools (e.g. IBM Tivoli, IBM Netcool Suite, ServiceNow, Splunk, Oracle, DynaTrace).

What the JD emphasized

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