Senior Lead Software Engineer- Platform

As a platform engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the International Consumer Bank, you will be joining our Cloud Platform Engineering tribe, which is at the heart of a cutting-edge cloud-native AWS infrastructure that powers the Chase UK bank that is trusted by over 2 million customers. You will be exposed to a wide spectrum of platform technologies such as Kubernetes clusters, connectivity, databases. As well as numerous technologies in the SDLC and CICD space. This confers opportunities to create automations to eliminate toil and improve developer experience.

We're looking for people who have a curious mindset, thrive in collaborative squads, and are passionate about new technology. By their nature, our people are also solution-oriented, commercially savvy and have a head for fintech. We work in tribes and squads that focus on specific products and projects - and depending on your strengths and interests, you'll have the opportunity to move among squads within the tribe.

This is a hybrid role that involves a mixture of people & team leadership and hands-on contributions. More specifically, it involves:

• Leading a team of engineers who develop tooling, with a focus on security and controls, to ensure Banking operations remain compliant with technical audit regulations.


• Interacting with stakeholders that focus on the control and compliance aspects of the platform


• Maintain and build a cloud platform for application developers and provide support to enforce controls in their SDLC and developer experience, with the minimum of manual intervention and maximum automation


• Manage and interact with vendors and other areas of the business to plan improvements and coordinate project efforts


• Participate in on-call rota
  
  Experience developing and maintaining applications in the public cloud (we use AWS)


• Experience managing public cloud infrastructure using infra-as-code technologies (we use Terraform)


• Good knowledge of Kubernetes clusters' operations and deployment (we use EKS)


• Good knowledge of programming using a modern language (Java/Python/Go)


• Principal engineer's experience comfortable designing solutions at scale


• Excellent understanding of DevOps principles and SDLC best practices


• Able to influence peers and seniors in various forums


• Excellent communication and collaboration skills


• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities


• Experience managing a 5-8 people squad


Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Familiar with software engineering security best practices in a cloud environment


• Formal training or certification on developing and maintaining applications in the public cloud concepts and proficient advanced experience


• Automation mindset (OPA experience preferred)


• Experience developing unit, integration and end-to-end software tests


• Experience with performance management


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J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives., Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.