Engineering Lead: Cloud-Native, AI-Driven Microservices

JPMorganChase; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in Plano leads Connected Commerce initiatives with a Senior Manager of Software Engineering role, guiding multiple teams, shaping platform strategy and AI-enabled modernization. You’ll influence budgets and technology choices to boost efficiency.

You will drive high-throughput Java microservices on AWS, implement secure, scalable designs, and champion best practices across the SDLC for rapid delivery and reliability.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts.
• 2+ years of experience managing a team of Software Engineers.
• 8+ years of hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Experience building highly scalable Java based microservices-based applications.
• Practical cloud-native experience on AWS, including building high-throughput services using EKS, ECS/Fargate and S3.
• Hands-on experience in high-throughput, near real-time stream processing using Kafka, Kinesis, and Flink (on ECS/EKS where applicable).
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies, including CI/CD, application resiliency, and security best practices.

Responsibilities

• Manages platform strategy and modernization (cloud-first, data-first), including AI enablement for efficiency, anomaly detection, and automation of controls.
• Champions engineering best practices for stream processing (Flink), microservices (Java/Python), API design, CI/CD, observability, and resiliency.
• Leads design of high-throughput, low-latency applications leveraging state-of-the-art machine learning architectures deployed on AWS
• Designs and develops secure, scalable microservices, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Creates architecture and design artifacts for complex components and platform capabilities
• Develops secure, high-quality production code and contributes to engineering best practices across the SDLC
• Designs and implements near real-time streaming and event-driven processing using technologies such as Kafka, Kinesis, and Flink
• Sets and scales operating practices for enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering and SDLC/TLM automation across multiple teams to improve delivery speed, quality, and operational outcomes; establishes measurable expectations (e.g., throughput, defect reduction, reliability) and ensures consistent validation, security, resiliency, and reuse of proven patterns.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to drive efficiency and support capacity unlock initiatives across teams, prioritizing reuse of existing firm technology assets.

Skills

Team management

Java microservices

AWS cloud

Event streaming

CI/CD

Security best practices

AI enablement

Agile methodologies

Git/Bitbucket

Cloud-native

Education

Formal software engineering training

Tools

IntelliJ/Eclipse

Maven

Gradle

Spring Boot

Spring MVC

Spring Cloud

Job description

JPMorganChase in Plano leads Connected Commerce initiatives with a Senior Manager of Software Engineering role, guiding multiple teams, shaping platform strategy and AI-enabled modernization. You’ll influence budgets and technology choices to boost efficiency.

You will drive high-throughput Java microservices on AWS, implement secure, scalable designs, and champion best practices across the SDLC for rapid delivery and reliability.