Lead Software Engineer PythonReact, Ansible, RHEL

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within Asset & Wealth Management youare 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 firms business objectives.

We are seeking a Vice President Software Engineering to lead the design development and support of automation-enabled software solutions. This role requires deep Python expertise strong React experience hands-on knowledge of Ansible Automation Platform and operational familiarity with RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). The VP will partner closely with internal customers/users own production outcomes and drive improvements in reliability usability and delivery practices. Basic networking knowledge is preferred (e.g. DNS TLS/certificates connectivity troubleshooting).

Job responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of software capabilities using Python (services APIs integrations automation tooling) and React (UI workflows API-driven front-ends).
• Drive design decisions and establish engineering standards (code quality testing strategy CI/CD patterns release discipline).
• Build and scale automation and tooling capabilities to improve operational efficiency and user experience.
• Diagnose common integration and connectivity issues using basic networking fundamentals (e.g. DNS TCP connectivity concepts TLS/certificates) escalating to specialist teams when needed.
• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality delivery speed and operational outcomes (e.g. AI-assisted code review/refactoring test strategy acceleration incident/root-cause analysis support) while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding peer review automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities to improve the value realized by automation.
• Develop and maintain automation solutions using Ansible Automation Platform (playbooks/roles inventories credential patterns operational runbooks).
• Lead effective customer support practices: incident/ticket triage prioritization clear communications root-cause analysis and prevention plans.
• Troubleshoot issues on RHEL (service health logs permissions performance basics) and coordinate resolution across partner teams.
• Partner with product infrastructure/platform security and operations stakeholders to deliver outcomes and manage risk.
• Maintain documentation runbooks and knowledge content; drive continuous improvement to reduce recurring issues and toil.

Required qualifications capabiltites and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5 years applied experience
• 5 yearsof professional experience in Python React Automation software engineering experience.
• Deep Pythonengineering experience (production-grade code debugging testing API integrations).
• Strong experience building web applications withReact(component design state management API integration).
• Hands-on experience withAnsible Automation Platform(or enterprise-scale Ansible automation in a managed platform context).
• Practical experience supporting systems onRedHat Linux / RHEL.
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (e.g. for coding code review test acceleration troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness performance and security.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows including data sensitivity considerations secure handling of inputs/outputs and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe compliant adoption within delivery practices
• Demonstratedcustomer support/production supportcapability (incident ownership RCA stakeholder communication).
• Working knowledge ofbasic networking conceptsused in troubleshooting (DNS TLS/certificates connectivity validation).
• Accountable for reliability and support outcomes (incident trends SLA/SLO adherence where applicable).

Preferred qualifications

• TypeScript; modern React patterns; UI testing (Jest/RTL/Cypress).
• Python frameworks (FastAPI/Flask) async patterns packaging linting CI.
• Ansible best practices (idempotency roles/collections secrets handling inventory design execution environments).
• Observability and operations (structured logging metrics tracing; on-call rotations).
• Containers and orchestration (Podman/Docker Kubernetes/OpenShift).
• Familiarity with proxies/firewall concepts/load balancers.
• Provide senior technical leadership and execution ownership across Python services UI and automation workflows.