Lead Software Engineer- Java and Kafka

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank, Regulatory Reporting Team, you will be an integral part of an agile team that enhances, builds, and delivers trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. As a core technical contributor, you will be responsible for delivering critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions to support the firm’s business objectives.

Job responsibilities

• Execute 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
• Implement real-time data processing solutions to efficiently handle large volumes of data
• Ensure data processing solutions comply with security and compliance standards
• Document data processing workflows, architecture, and best practices
• Optimize data processing pipelines for performance and scalability
• Monitor and troubleshoot performance issues in Kafka and Spark applications
• Lead communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and adoption of new and leading-edge technologies
• Contribute to a team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience
• Proven Senior Java developer with expertise in Java, Kafka, and SQL
• Experience developing and maintaining Java applications for data ingestion, transformation, and storage
• Ability to integrate data processing solutions with AWS services such as Apache Kafka/Amazon MSK, Amazon S3, AWS Lambda, and Amazon EMR
• Strong experience with AWS services and cloud-based architectures
• Experience with data enrichment, transformation, and optimization techniques
• Experience developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment using one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
• Proficiency in designing and implementing real-time data processing solutions

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with Python or shell scripting and working in a Linux environment
• Experience building distributed systems at Internet scale
• Experience with Spark Structured Streaming and Spark SQL