Sr Lead Software Engineer

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Commercial & Investment Bank

Senior Lead Software Engineer role focused on enhancing and migrating a trade processing platform to a cloud-native codebase within JPMorgan Chase's Commercial & Investment Banking division. The role involves executing software solutions, designing complex applications, troubleshooting technical issues, and ensuring code quality and stability. A key responsibility is setting and scaling operating practices for enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering and SDLC/TLM automation, focusing on improving delivery speed, quality, and operational outcomes. The role also requires applying knowledge of AI-assisted development tools to drive efficiency and supporting capacity unlock initiatives, with a strong emphasis on responsible AI use in engineering workflows, data sensitivity, resiliency, security, and control expectations.

What you'd actually do

  1. Executes 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. Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems
  3. Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development
  4. Gathers, analyzes, synthesizes, and develops visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems
  5. Sets and scales operating practices for enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering and SDLC/TLM automation across multiple teams to improve delivery speed, quality, and operational outcomes; establishes measurable expectations (e.g., throughput, defect reduction, reliability) and ensures consistent validation, security, resiliency, and reuse of proven patterns.

Skills

Required

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 8+ years applied experience
  • Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
  • Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
  • Advanced coding with Java 11
  • advanced capabilities with relational databases such as Oracle, PostgresQL, and Mongo DB
  • Experience with event-driven development, Kafka and messaging systems such as Java Messaging System (JMS)
  • Strong experience developing applications built on microservices architecture while working across a globally distributed team
  • Ability to communicate effectively across different organization levels for technical and non-technical audiences, peers, and leadership teams.
  • Experience with AWS ecosystem and application migrations from on-premise and hybrid solutions to fully cloud-native applications.
  • In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
  • Ability to contribute directly to coding, code reviews, and technical team delivery while partnering with management and stakeholders to ensure delivery is aligned with overall team objectives.
  • Experience leading multi-team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and delivery tools, including defining governance/ways of working (human-in-the-loop validation, quality gates), measuring outcomes, and ensuring secure handling of sensitive inputs/outputs.
  • Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, resiliency/security implications, and control expectations; ability to coach managers/leads and influence leaders on safe scaling patterns.

What the JD emphasized

  • enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering
  • SDLC/TLM automation
  • responsible AI use
  • data sensitivity considerations
  • resiliency/security implications
  • control expectations