Manager of Software Engineering - Fullstack Java/Backend heavy

About the position

This is your chance to change the path of your career and guide multiple teams to success at one of the world's leading financial institutions. As a Manager of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer & Community Banking, you lead multiple teams and manage day-to-day implementation activities by identifying and escalating issues and ensuring your team's work adheres to compliance standards, business requirements, and tactical best practices.

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.
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems.
• Demonstrates overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle with solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Applicant Resiliency, and Security.
• Leads evaluation sessions with internal teams to promote 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 promote awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies.
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.

Requirements

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Demonstrated coaching and mentoring experience.
• Advanced knowledge of application designing & building, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines.
• Hands on building software with excellent understanding of architecture and design across all systems.
• Ability to work in large, collaborative teams to achieve organizational goals.
• Understanding of software skills such as business analysis, development, maintenance, and software improvement.
• Pragmatism and the ability to strike the balance between the need for process versus the need to accelerate project delivery and not overburden teams with unnecessary administrative overhead is key.
• Expert in Java, Python, Databases (SQL/NOSQL), Kafka, Spring, Spring Boot, AWS.
• Hands-on practical experience building & delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s) like Java, Python, SQL and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Drives, supports, and delivers on a strategy to build broad use of Amazon's utility computing web services (e.g., AWS Step functions, AWS Aurora Postgres, CloudWatch, EKS, ECS, AWS Secrets Manager).
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods.

Nice-to-haves

• Practical cloud native experience.
• Hands on DevOps experience.
• Advantage of having Cloud Certification but not compulsory.
• Hands on Deployment pipelines experience.
• Having Cobol or Mainframe knowledge will be big advantage.
• Experience with Logging, Observability and Monitoring tools.