Lead Software Engineer- DevOps/Kubernetes
Company: JPMorganChase
Location: Columbus
Posted on: April 4, 2026
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Job Description:
Description We have an opportunity to impact your career and
provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's
possible. As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the
Consumer and community banking technology team, you are an integral
part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver
trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and
scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible
for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple
technical areas within various business functions in support of the
firm’s business objectives. Job 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
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 Adds to team culture of
diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect Leads the design,
development, and evolution of a highly scalable, reliable GraphQL
platform with exceptional performance and high availability across
multiple teams and services. Establishes and champions
observability, monitoring, and alerting standards across the
platform, designing proactive solutions to detect and resolve
issues before they impact users. Leads the development of
automation strategies for CI/CD pipelines and
infrastructure-as-code practices, creating reusable patterns and
frameworks that accelerate delivery across engineering teams.
Designs and oversees intuitive self-service developer experiences,
including APIs, tooling, documentation, and integration patterns
that enable teams to adopt platform services independently.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills 6 years of
professional software engineering experience with 3 years focused
on building and scaling platform solutions or infrastructure.
Proven leadership experience in mentoring engineers, leading
technical initiatives, and driving architectural decisions across
teams. Expert in containerization and orchestration technologies
such as Docker and Kubernetes, with hands-on experience managing
large-scale workloads on Kubernetes. Expert-level proficiency in
scripting and automation using Bash, Groovy, Python, or similar
languages. Deep hands-on experience with Terraform and
infrastructure-as-code practices for managing complex,
multi-environment infrastructure. Strong expertise in GraphQL
architecture, schema design, and RESTful API principles, with
experience designing and implementing API standards. Extensive
experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines, build
automation, and deployment strategies. Expert-level proficiency
with version control workflows (Git/Bitbucket) and distributed
systems monitoring using tools such as Splunk, DataDog, Dynatrace,
or CloudWatch. Deep understanding of OAuth 2.0, secure
authentication/authorization patterns, and security best practices
in platform engineering. Exceptional documentation skills,
including creating comprehensive technical documentation,
architecture decision records (ADRs), runbooks, and system
diagrams. Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
Production experience architecting, building, and scaling GraphQL
platforms serving multiple teams or business units. Extensive
experience with AWS cloud architecture and services, including
architectural patterns for high availability and disaster recovery.
Advanced knowledge of AWS services including EKS, ECS Fargate, IAM,
VPC design, CloudWatch, X-Ray, ElastiCache-Redis, RDS Aurora
Postgres, MSK, and KMS. Proficiency in at least one modern
programming language (Java, Rust, Go, or similar), with ability to
review code and provide technical guidance. Proven track record
designing and implementing comprehensive observability solutions
(metrics, logging, tracing, alerting) and automating complex CI/CD
workflows using Jenkins, Spinnaker, or similar platforms.
Contributions to open-source projects or technical communities
related to GraphQL, platform engineering, or cloud-native
architectures.
Keywords: JPMorganChase, Springfield , Lead Software Engineer- DevOps/Kubernetes, IT / Software / Systems , Columbus, Ohio
