Senior Lead Software Engineer: Cloud & AI-Driven DevOps

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Jersey City seeks a Senior Lead Software Engineer to drive design and delivery of trusted, scalable fintech platforms.

You will lead secure production code, mentor teams, and govern AI-assisted engineering practices to increase quality, speed, and reliability across the SDLC. You will champion cloud security, IAM, and AWS-native architectures, and collaborate to implement automated testing, code reviews, and incident analysis.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Experience developing and designing software using AWS Services especially Database products.
• Experience in cloud security, Governance, Identity & access management.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Proficient in all aspects of coding with modern scripting languages and infrastructure as code practices.
• Expertise in Python and Terraform is a must.
• Hands on experience with delivering and supporting large scale AWS production workload infrastructure.
• Advanced understanding of AWS services for Traditional Compute, Containerization, and Serverless architectures.
• Proficient in automation and continuous delivery methods.
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools within the work environment with 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.

Responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors.
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others.
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes.
• Drives adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices across teams to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including AI-assisted development and automation capabilities.
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus.
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies.
• Contributes to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.

Skills

AWS Services

Python

Terraform

AI-assisted development

Security best practices

Cloud security

CI/CD

Leadership

Software design

Code reviews

Tools

Jira

Bitbucket

Github

Confluence

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Jersey City seeks a Senior Lead Software Engineer to drive design and delivery of trusted, scalable fintech platforms.

You will lead secure production code, mentor teams, and govern AI-assisted engineering practices to increase quality, speed, and reliability across the SDLC. You will champion cloud security, IAM, and AWS-native architectures, and collaborate to implement automated testing, code reviews, and incident analysis.