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JPMorgan Chase & Co. lists this Senior Lead Software Engineer - Java/Python/AWS/AI/LLM opportunity in plano, Texas. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Be an integral part of an agile team thats constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products. As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Consumer & Community Banking, OPS Tech, 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. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications. Lead end-to-end delivery of complex full-stack initiatives from concept through production launch, balancing speed, quality, risk, and maintainability. Set technical direction for the team/domain: define target architecture, drive roadmap-level technical decisions, and align designs to business priorities and constraints. Architect and deliver cloud-native microservices and APIs with strong security controls, scalability, resilience, and performance; Lead development of AI-driven capabilities, including LLM-based services, orchestration, and integrations into business workflows; Drive team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices (e.g., CoPilot, Claude) to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes; set consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promote reuse. Establish and enforce engineering standards across the team (coding standards, API guidelines, testing strategy, dependency management, documentation expectations, and operational readiness). Lead observability and operational automation strategy (logs/metrics/tracing, alert quality, runbooks, auto-remediation) to reduce recurring issues and improve MTTR. Drive CI/CD maturity and safe delivery practices (quality gates, canary/blue-green, feature flags, rollback strategy), enabling predictable releases and zero/low downtime changes. Mentor and grow engineers (senior and junior) through technical coaching, architecture reviews, and feedback; Communicate status, risks, and tradeoffs clearly across stakeholders; manage priorities and dependencies across multiple initiatives while operating effectively in Agile/Scrum. Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience in addition to 7+ years of applied experience building production systems, including leading delivery of complex initiatives. Strong system design, application development, and operational stability skills in production environments, with demonstrated ownership of on-call readiness and incident outcomes. Expertise designing and building microservices and RESTful APIs, with strong knowledge of data technologies and integration patterns, and ability to set standards used by others. Hands-on experience building cloud-native systems on at least one major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including production deployment and operationalization. Experience with distributed systems concepts (scalability, resiliency, concurrency, idempotency, failure modes, and performance tuning) and ability to guide design reviews. Hands-on experience using enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools within the work environment, with demonstrated ability to evaluate, validate, and refine AI-generated outputs for correctness, performance, and security. Demonstrated experience leading effective team use of approved AI-assisted development practices (coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting), including establishing team expectations and reusable validation patterns. Hands-on experience with Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI use cases (e.g., RAG, summarization/extraction, workflow assistants), including evaluation and monitoring considerations. Understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows (data sensitivity, safe handling of inputs/outputs, resiliency/security expectations) and ability to guide peers on safe and effective usage. AWS cloud certification(s). AI/ML or GenAI certification(s) (or equivalent practical experience delivering LLM-enabled capabilities). Advanced Java proficiency (primary) and working knowledge of Python. Experience with multi-region deployments, disaster recovery, and zero-downtime release patterns. Strong understanding of responsible AI practices, including prompt/agent safety patterns and secure handling of sensitive data. Domain familiarity with financial services technology; Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of Americas households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve all their financial needs. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veterans Our Consumer & Community Banking Group depends on innovators like you to serve consumers, small businesses, municipalities and non-profits. Youll support the delivery of award winning tools and services that cover everything from personal and small business banking as well as lending, mortgages, credit cards, payments, auto finance and investment advice. This group is also focused on developing and delivering cutting edged mobile applications, digital experiences and next generation banking technology solutions to better serve our clients and customers.
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