Lead Software Engineer - DevOps

Job Responsibilities

• Manage and coordinate releases across environments (UAT & production), ensuring readiness checks, clear change documentation, stakeholder communication, and reliable rollback plans
• Own production reliability and latency for algo/execution services (including post trading hours releases, operational readiness, and market-hours support posture)
• Execute 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
• Manage and own UAT environment provisioning and configuration for on-prem hosts supporting uptime, deployments, environment triage, and release readiness in coordination with partner teams
• Build and improve CI/CD and release engineering for Java services with automated builds, artifact/versioning discipline, promotion across environments, gated releases, and fast rollback
• Partner with infrastructure/networking teams on Linux and network performance considerations that impact latency, jitter, and stability
• Drive incident management excellence in knowing rapid triage, root-cause analysis, and permanent remediation to reduce recurrence and MTTR
• Engineer for resiliency with HA/DR design, failover testing, dependency isolation, and capacity
• Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Lead communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Add to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced development experience in one or more programming language(s) (i.e., Python, Java, or equivalent)
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Familiar with AI-assisted development tools in the development lifecycle (and ability to evaluate outputs critically)
• 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.)
• Proven track record with observability (metrics/logs/traces), alert design, and SLO-driven reliability practices
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
• Strong troubleshooting across app + OS + network layers being comfortable with incident response and postmortems
• Practical cloud native experience

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Experience with high-throughput and/or low-latency systems
• Proven track record with observability (metrics/logs/traces), alert design, and SLO-driven reliability practices
• Experience designing for non-functional requirements (resiliency, scalability, supportability) and driving those into implementation

About the Team

J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.