Senior Lead Software Engineer Java DevOps

Be an integral part of an agile team thats constantly pushing the envelope to enhance build and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Banking - Payments Technology you play a crucial role in an agile team dedicated to enhancing building and delivering trusted market-leading technology products in a secure stable and scalable manner. This hands-on technical leadership position emphasizes engineering excellence automation and innovation. You will lead a global team of engineers working closely with development infrastructure and business partners to deliver resilient observable and high-performing systems.

Job responsibilities

• Architect and implement solutions for high availability fault tolerance and performance of critical applications across various technologies
• Lead technical reviews and drive automation for monitoring alerting and operational workflows
• Design and advance observability frameworks to improve application health insights and incident response
• Mentor and coach engineers on reliability and operational excellence
• Collaborate with development DevOps and business partners to align reliability initiatives with strategic goals
• Engineer robust release validation and production readiness processes for seamless deployments
• Own rapid production incident response and root cause analysis driving permanent engineering solutions
• 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

Required qualifications capabilities and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5 years applied experience
• Extensive experience in application development reliability engineering or SRE including substantial years in technical leadership roles
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design application development testing and operational stability
• Advanced software engineering expertise (Java Python or similar) with a proven track record of building reliable scalable systems
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Practical cloud native experience
• Deep knowledge of observability monitoring and logging platforms (Grafana Prometheus Splunk Datadog AppDynamics ELK etc.)
• Hands-on experience with automation scripting and infrastructure-as-code (Python Java Shell Ansible etc.)
• Strong understanding of incident management root cause analysis and reliability frameworks
• Experience leading distributed engineering teams in a high-availability environment and in stakeholder management.