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Lead Software Engineer- Java and Kafka

at J.P. Morgan

Mid LevelNo visa sponsorshipJava

Posted a month ago

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Compensation: Not specified
City: Jersey City
Country: United States

Lead Software Engineer within JPMorgan Chase's Commercial & Investment Bank Regulatory Reporting team responsible for designing, building, and delivering secure, scalable real-time data processing solutions. The role focuses on Java, Kafka, SQL and AWS integrations (MSK, S3, Lambda, EMR) for data ingestion, enrichment, transformation and storage. You will troubleshoot performance (Kafka/Spark), optimize pipelines, document architectures, and lead engineering communities to drive adoption of leading-edge technologies.

Location: Jersey City, NJ, United States

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank, Regulatory Reporting Team, you will be an integral part of an agile team that enhances, builds, and delivers trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. As a core technical contributor, you will be responsible for delivering critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions to support the firm’s business objectives.

Job responsibilities

Execute creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting, with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems

Implement real-time data processing solutions to efficiently handle large volumes of data

Ensure data processing solutions comply with security and compliance standards

Document data processing workflows, architecture, and best practices

Optimize data processing pipelines for performance and scalability

Monitor and troubleshoot performance issues in Kafka and Spark applications

Lead communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and adoption of new and leading-edge technologies

Contribute to a team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience

Proven Senior Java developer with expertise in Java, Kafka, and SQL

Experience developing and maintaining Java applications for data ingestion, transformation, and storage

Ability to integrate data processing solutions with AWS services such as Apache Kafka/Amazon MSK, Amazon S3, AWS Lambda, and Amazon EMR

Strong experience with AWS services and cloud-based architectures

Experience with data enrichment, transformation, and optimization techniques

Experience developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment using one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages

Proficiency in designing and implementing real-time data processing solutions

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Experience with Python or shell scripting and working in a Linux environment

Experience building distributed systems at Internet scale

Experience with Spark Structured Streaming and Spark SQL

Develop solutions for data enrichment and transformation to create meaningful insights

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