
Lead Software Engineer - Risk Solutioning - Python, Big Data, Project Management
at J.P. Morgan
Posted 14 hours ago
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- City
- Columbus
- Country
- United States
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Lead Software Engineer within Foundational Services at JPMorgan Chase responsible for designing, building, and delivering secure, scalable software solutions focused on risk automation and regulatory compliance. Hands-on contributor expected to write high-quality Python (Django) and JavaScript code, work with big data systems, and ensure operational stability across the SDLC. The role includes driving QA/CI-CD practices, evaluating vendors and architectures, leading communities of practice, and collaborating with product and business owners. Program/project management experience and strong documentation and presentation skills are required.
Location: Columbus, OH, United States
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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within Foundational Services within Infrastructure Platforms, 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 break down technical problems.
- Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others (SOC, SOCII, SOX).
- 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.
- Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies.
- Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering and Python and JavaScript concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
- Demonstrates strong analytical thinking and the ability to evaluate risk and compliance data from diverse sources, identifying valuable insights and opportunities for users.
- Advanced in one or more programming language(s) - Python (Django framework) and JavaScript.
- Proficiency in QA best practices within continuous delivery cycles and in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle - with an emphasis on release management.
- Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security.
- Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.).
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems.
- Program management experience.
- Demonstrated excellence in documentation, and presentation skills. Should excel in communicating technical terminologies to product/business owners.
- Experience with big data (data lakes, data warehousing, data buckets).
- Experience working with Cloud Foundry, Jenkins, and/or Docker.
- Experience crafting user stories.




