Security & Privileged Access, Java, Linux Lead Software Engineer - Security & Privileged Access

About the role

As a Lead Software Engineer-Security and Privileged Access within Corporate Technology's Identity and Access Management team at JPMorgan Chase, you are an integral part of an agile team enhancing, building, and delivering trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you will conduct critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas supporting the firm's business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the 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.
• 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.
• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices 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.
• Applies 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.
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.
• Demonstrates proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods.
• Works with SQL and NoSQL databases within technical disciplines such as cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, or mobile.
• Applies advanced understanding of agile methodologies, including CI/CD, application resiliency, and security.

Requirements

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Advanced proficiency in Java and Shell Scripting programming languages, with strong design and Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) and Design Patterns.
• Experience working on Linux-based systems.
• Experience in authentication, authorization, encryption, and role and attribute-based access controls (RBAC and ABAC).
• Expertise across all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Practical experience with cloud-native technologies and real-time messaging.
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems.
• Applied practical knowledge of cloud-native platforms and solutions.
• Experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• Infrastructure knowledge (OS, Network, Storage), SRE skills (monitoring and observability).
• Proficiency in Python.

Benefits

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

Pay

Competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set, and location. Eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions.