Lead Software Engineer - SRE Cloud Engineer

JPMorgan Chase; Ohio; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase seeks a Lead Software Engineer for the Corporate Technology Finance and Risk Warehouse SRE Team in Ohio. You will solve complex problems via code and cloud infrastructure, owning design, deployment, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities include guiding peers, building scalable CI/CD, and advancing AI-assisted engineering practices with strong validation. You will work on monitoring, incident response, and secure coding standards as part of a cross-functional team.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts.

Responsibilities

• Guides and assists others in designing level designs and gaining consensus.
• Collaborates to design and implement CI/CD pipelines.
• Develops and implements scalable, reliable, and observable applications.
• Implements infrastructure as code for applications and platforms.
• Resolves complex problems with stakeholders and teammates.
• Monitors production, provides L1/L2 support, and participates in on-call rotations.
• Promotes AI-assisted engineering practices with secure validation.

Skills

Python

Java/Spring

Scala

.NET

IaC

Terraform

AWS CDK

PySpark

Cloud

Kubernetes

Docker

Monitoring

Dynatrace

OTEL

Prometheus

Grafana

Git

Bitbucket

Jenkins

SonarQube

Splunk

Maven

CI/CD

AI-assisted tools

Responsible AI

Education

Software engineering training

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

Kubernetes

Docker

Datadog

Airflow/Dag

Databricks

Job description

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level. As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Technology Finance and Risk Warehouse SRE Team, you will solve complex and broad business problems with simple and straightforward solutions. Through code and cloud infrastructure, you will configure, maintain, monitor, and optimize applications and their associated infrastructure to independently decompose and iteratively improve on existing solutions.

Job responsibilities

• Guides and assists others in the areas of building appropriate level designs and gaining consensus from peers where appropriate.
• Collaborates with other software engineers and teams to design and implement deployment approaches using automated continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Collaborates with other software engineers and teams to design, develop, test, and implement availability, reliability, scalability, and solutions in their applications.
• Implements infrastructure, configuration, and network as code for the applications and platforms in your remit.
• Collaborates with technical experts, key stakeholders, and team members to resolve complex problems.
• Understands service level indicators and utilizes service level objectives to proactively resolve issues before they impact customers.
• Supports the adoption of site reliability engineering best practices within the team.
• Monitors and responds to production alerts, providing L1 and L2 support to minimize customer impact.
• Provides weekend and on-call production support as part of the team rotation.
• 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.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Strong analysis, research, investigation, and evaluation skills, with a structured approach to problem solving.
• Proficient in at least one programming language such as Python, Java/Spring Boot, Scala, and/or .Net.
• Hands-on with infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform and AWS CDK.
• Experience developing and running data pipelines using PySpark and good debugging skills.
• Experience managing and developing/deploying on Cloud (private cloud or public cloud).
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, and other container technologies.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools, including Dynatrace, Open Telemetry (OTEL), Prometheus, Datadog, and Grafana, particularly in dashboard development.
• Knowledge of GIT, Bitbucket, Jenkins, SONAR, SPLUNK, Maven, AIM and Continuous Delivery tools.
• Demonstrated experience using and leading effective use of enterprise-authorized, AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) to support SRE workflows - with strong validation habits and 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.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Production working knowledge of Databricks and Apache Airflow on AWS.
• AWS, Databricks, and/or Terraform certification.
• Working knowledge of Control-M/Autosys, Airflow scheduling package.
• UNIX file management & administration and good shell scripting experience.
• Oracle (v9i/10/11/19c) running on Exadata, Ansi SQL, PL/SQL Stored Procedures support/development.