Senior Lead Software Engineer - Cloud Platform Engineering

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer (Platform) to join the Accelerator Business Platform Team. This role involves setting technical direction across squads, raising engineering standards, and mentoring technical leaders. The ideal candidate will have a curious mindset, thrive in collaborative environments, and be passionate about new technology and fintech.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts, such as Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), Google Associate Cloud Engineer Certification, or AWS Certified Solutions Architect, or equivalent experience.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability, including leading technical delivery in complex environments.
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s), such as Go, Java or Kotlin.
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies, CI/CD, application resiliency, and security, including setting standards and driving adoption across teams.
• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and processes within a technical domain, such as cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.
• Practical cloud native experience, deploying Kubernetes applications on a cloud service provider, such as Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, or Microsoft Azure, at meaningful scale.
• Expertise in the Kubernetes operator pattern.
• Expertise deploying infrastructure as code, using Crossplane, Terraform, or equivalent.
• Experience with GitOps workflows.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for platform engineering across squads, aligning architecture, delivery, and operational excellence to business outcomes and risk controls.
• Develop secure high-quality production code, and review and debug code written by others; establish engineering standards and best practices.
• Design and develop composable infrastructure systems and capabilities, with a focus on scalable platform services.
• Design, build, and operate Kubernetes-based platform services; automate developer self-service and CI/CD; improve reliability and operational readiness; strengthen platform security and controls via IaC, policy-as-code, and hardening standards.
• Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems.
• Provide operational support and leadership for production systems in a "you-build-it-you-run-it" culture, including incident response, post-incident learning, and continuous reliability improvements.
• Lead 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.
• Lead and grow communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness, adoption, and use of new and leading-edge technologies.
• Coach and mentor engineers, developing technical leadership capability and supporting high performance across teams.
• Add to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.

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