Lead Software Engineer - Identity Governance & Administration (IGA)

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About the role

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level. As a core technical contributor of a software engineering team, you will execute software solutions through the design, development, and technical troubleshooting of multiple components within a technical product, application, or system, while gaining the skills and experience needed to grow within your role.

Responsibilities

• Leverage enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate design, coding, testing, troubleshooting, and automation while maintaining secure, high-quality, auditable delivery.
• Produce architecture and design artifacts for complex applications, and ensure implemented code conforms to design constraints and standards.
• Drive team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.
• Apply knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.
• Design, develop, and continuously improve scalable, resilient systems in a timely manner in partnership with product teams.
• Write clean, well-documented, unit-tested code to ensure high-quality software modules.
• Incorporate non-functional requirements (telemetry, monitoring, security, alerting, logging) into solution designs and implementations.
• Manage critical, time-sensitive concurrent tasks with appropriate supervision, prioritization, and escalation when needed.
• Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities to enhance delivery flow across product and technology.
• Mentor and develop team members in design, new technologies, clean code, TDD, code review, and problem-solving practices.
• Partner with product/customers to understand program function and end-user experience, support production issues as needed, collaborate effectively in distributed Agile teams, and contribute as a technology coach/lead developer across teams.

Requirements

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, able to influence stakeholders, explain complex technical concepts, and collaborate across teams and time zones.
• Demonstrated leadership in using approved AI-assisted development tools (coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) and setting team standards to validate AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency/security expectations; able to coach teams on safe, compliant adoption.
• Proficiency with AI coding/analysis assistants to improve developer productivity and velocity, applying appropriate governance and security controls.
• Proven innovator with a track record of proposing and prototyping new design ideas to solve problems.
• Expert knowledge of OOP, design patterns, and software analysis/design practices.
• Ability to assess upstream/downstream system and data impacts and recommend mitigation actions.
• Strong backend engineering experience with Java, REST/web services/APIs, Spring Boot, microservices, multithreading, and databases (e.g., Oracle, MS SQL, CockroachDB).
• Frontend experience with modern UI frameworks such as React and Angular.
• DevOps/quality and non-functional tooling experience, including Terraform (or similar IaC), test automation (e.g., Selenium, Cucumber, Blazemeter), Git, Jenkins CI/CD, application resiliency and security, and performance/telemetry/monitoring/alerts/logging.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with customer-facing web applications, NoSQL databases such as MongoDB.
• Experience with Agile Development Techniques, Issue/Bug Management, and Team Collaboration Tools.
• Ability to understand requirements, technical design, and ask the right questions to develop high-quality solutions.
• Zeal to learn new technologies.
• Independent and self-motivated.
• Experience leading a technical team.

About Us

JPMorgan Chase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses, and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional, and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years, and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health care coverage.
• On-site health and wellness centers.
• A retirement savings plan.
• Backup childcare.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Mental health support.
• Financial coaching.

Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

About The Team

Our Corporate Technology team relies on smart, driven people like you to develop applications and provide tech support for all our corporate functions across our network. Your efforts will touch lives all over the financial spectrum and across all our divisions: Global Finance, Corporate Treasury, Risk Management, Human Resources, Compliance, Legal, and within the Corporate Administrative Office. You'll be part of a team specifically built to meet and exceed our evolving technology needs, as well as our technology controls agenda.