Senior Lead Software Engineer - Mainframe Modernization

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Investment Bank, 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.

Job responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Strong experience with mainframe systems, including programming in COBOL, dataCom, IBM legacy and working with legacy technologies
• Oversee the lift-and-shift and live modernization of existing applications to AWS, or architect the redevelopment of legacy applications into cloud-native solutions, as decided by strategic goals
• Lead and mentor a team of software engineers and architects in cloud best practices, development methodologies, and technologies
• Develop detailed migration plans, including timelines, risks, and resource allocations
• Demonstrated ability in leading digital transformation projects
• Extensive hands-on experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and substantial experience implementing cloud-native services; preferably on AWS
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s); such as Java and / or C#
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
• Document high-level and low-level architectural diagrams, decisions, designs, and modifications

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Certifications in AWS cloud architecture or similar credentials
• Prior experience in the financial services industry, particularly with secure and compliant systems
• Strong analytical, negotiation and partnering skills with ability to successfully navigate in a matrix organization
• Advanced problem-solving skills, exceptional communication skills, and the ability to think analytically
25 days ago