Senior Lead Software Engineer - AWS, Java, Spring Boot

Be an integral part of an agile team that's 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 Bank's Wholesale Loan Technology team, 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. You will be working on the deployment of a new AWS Public Cloud equipment finance platform, a multi-year strategic investment providing next generation financing capabilities. You should bring strong communication and skills and experience working in an Agile environment with continuous integration and delivery. You should be able to apply your experience to identify the right path forward, execute the next steps and get work done as an individual, as a team member and with management support. You should be able to collaborate and work effectively in a team and across teams. A successful individual will be a problem solver and bring in best practices to the team.

Job responsibilities

• Design, analyze, develop, test, debug, and model the system components necessary to produce potentially shippable product iterations with each sprint.
• Deliver high quality code that complies with standards and satisfies architectural tests.
• Lead and manage a global Feature Team 
• Perform pair programming and assist the team in supporting the application in all required environments.
• Provide estimates for user stories utilizing planning poker.
• Participate in product backlog prioritization, story mapping, and story splitting activities. 
• Prepare and lead sprint review meetings showcasing completed product backlog items to the product owner and subject matter experts.  
• Proactively look to develop and implement best practices across the entire project team, practicing continuous process improvement.
• Collaborate face to face and virtually with the Product Owner, Operations and Technology partners around the world
• Guide team members toward best solutions for the problem at hand
• Listen, interact and train developers to enhance their skill sets

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5 years of applied experience with a focus on AWS, Java and Spring Boot including standalone Spring Framework integration 
• Bachelor’s Degree - preferably in Computer Science
• Strong written and oral communication and excellent presentation and influencing skills
• Proven ability to collaborate with global agile teams
• Prior experience managing a global feature team
• Strong knowledge in Core Java (Java 11 ), Spring Boot, REST, Micro Services, Cloud Native, Agile, DevOps and TDD
• Deep experience in object oriented analysis and design (OOAD), Threads & Concurrency and Collections 
• Recent experience with a cloud platform such as Pivotal Cloud Foundry or AWS and experience with Kafka event messaging
• 3 years UX/UI experience utilizing HTML, CSS, plain JavaScript, Angular, React
• Good SQL/PL-SQL Skills and Hibernate/JPA
• Passionate about testing strategy, problem solving, learning new skills, sharing expertise and knowledge

• Knowledge and utilization of Container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes is a plus
• AWS or other cloud service associate level certification
• Experience in Production support
• Experience working in a financial services environment with good working knowledge of associated accounting principles 
• Previous experience within wholesale loans and credit risk business