at J.P. Morgan
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**Lead Software Engineer - Cloud Engineer in Houston, TX** Pioneer as our **Lead Software Engineer**, driving cloud transformations within JPMorganChase's agile Merkets Technology team. **Key responsibilities** include: strategizing with cross-functional teams for Athena platform evolution, innovating software solutions, migrating infrastructure to scalable cloud architectures, automating issue resolution, and championing new tech adoption. **Required skills** are extensive: 5+ years in software engineering, proficiency in Python/Java, expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, cloud-native practices, and load balancing. **Preferred** capabilities span large-scale AWS EKS management, Terraform hands-on, and DevOps experience. Bring a cultural focus on diversity, opportunity, and respect. Contribute significantly to our quest for market-leading, secure, and stable technology.
- Compensation
- Not specified USD
- City
- Houston
- Country
- United States
Currency: $ (USD)
Full Job Description
Location: Houston, TX, United States
We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Commercial and Investment Bank, Merkets Technology, 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. 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.
Job responsibilities
- Aligning technical strategy with other partner teams across the bank to deliver a complete and coherent experience for Athena Developers
- Execute creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
- Partner with a global team of engineers through a transformation of the Athena Core Platform to a resilient and scalable cloud based architecture
- Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
- Lead communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Working knowledge of load balancing and service orchestration, both on-prem and in public cloud environments
- Proficient in one or more general-purpose programming languages such as Python, Java
- Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
- Practical Cloud-native and Kubernetes experience
- In-depth knowledge of Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform
- Add to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
- Experience running Kubernetes (AWS EKS) at large scale for financial organizations where scaling, resiliency, security, monitoring and audit trail etc. will be prioritized
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code products, preferably Terraform
- Experience in one or more public cloud platforms (ideally AWS)
- Experience in DevOps will be considered an advantage
