Java Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software Engineer

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Trust and Security, 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 firm's business objectives.

Job Responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or breakdown technical problems
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• 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.
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• A. Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience (NAMR/APAC – India/LATAM/Hong Kong)B. Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and advanced applied experience (EMEA/LATAM-Brazil)C. Singapore follow local country guidance
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language. Strong proficiency in Java (e.g., Java 11/17+) and Spring Boot (or similar frame)
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) 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; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systemsPractical cloud native experience

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• ECS/EKS/Lambda, API Gateway/ALB, S3, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB
• SQS/SNS/Kinesis, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager/Parameter Store, IAM, KMS
• CI/CD tooling (e.g., Jenkins/GitHub Actions/GitLab CI) and automated quality gates.
• Observability tooling: OpenTelemetry , distributed tracing, structured logging.
• Experience with event-driven design, messaging, and streaming architectures.