Software Engineer Iii It Architecture

Job Category Software Engineering 55ip a leading fintech firm and part of JPMorgan Chase empowers financial advisors and enterprise partners to break down barriers to financial progress improve client outcomes and grow their business through intelligence technology and client experience Our mission is to set the industry standard by delivering innovative automated solutions for tax-smart investing supported by a culture of hustle collaboration and a relentless drive for excellence At 55ip we are united in delivering better outcomes for our clients their clients and the industry 5As software engineer IT Architect in our IT Architecture Group you will work closely with senior architects and engineering teams to implement proof-of-concept PoC and pilot projects contribute to the design and development of platform features and support the evolution of our automated tax-smart investing platform This position is ideal for candidates with strong technical skills a collaborative mindset and a passion for learning and innovation in AWS cloud-native architecture Job responsibilities Implement PoC and pilot projects for new platform features and technologies under the guidance of senior architects Contribute to architecture documentation including class diagrams data architecture functional architecture and application architecture Support the design and development of microservices for automated investment workflows Assist in optimizing data pipelines for portfolio management and tax-smart investing including Airflow DAG implementation Participate in the development of machine learning platforms for quantitative analytics integrating with portfolio management solutions Help maintain data warehouse and data lake solutions for analytics and reporting Redshift Snowflake etc Support observability solutions monitoring logging tracing alerting to ensure system health and performance Contribute to the implementation of non-functional requirements NFRs for performance scalability reliability and security Collaborate with product engineering and data teams to deliver robust scalable solutions Engage with stakeholders across business product and technology teams to ensure alignment and transparency Assist in evaluating and integrating AWS services Kafka RabbitMQ and Redis into platform architecture Participate in Python upgrade automation and ensure compatibility across services and platforms Support the maintenance of Technology Inventory Reusable Components Technology Radar and Approved Patterns as part of the architecture team Document and track Architecture Decision Records ADR for key architectural decisions Follow best practices in security compliance cloud-native development and observability Identify and communicate technical debt and contribute to remediation plans Contribute to data modeling and design efforts to ensure optimal database performance for both transactional and analytical data stores Required qualifications capabilities and skills - Minimum 6 years of hands-on experience in software engineering or architecture roles - Proficiency in Python and database technologies like AWS Aurora SQL NoSQL - Experience in data modeling and database design for both transactional and analytical workloads - Database tuning for optimal platform performance to meet Non-functional requirements Experience with public cloud AWS services EC2 S3 Lambda RDS ECS etc Familiarity with distributed messaging systems Kafka RabbitMQ - Experience with Redis for caching and real-time data processing Experience in microservices design and implementation - Data warehouse experience Redshift Snowflake etc Experience with container deployment technologies ECS Fargate or Kubernetes - Experience with observability tools Prometheus Grafana Datadog Exposure to machine learning platforms for quantitative analytics - Experience with CI CD and DevOps practices Experience with Airflow DAGs and data pipeline optimization - Experience automating Python upgrades across distributed systems Experience creating and maintaining architecture documentation including class diagrams and architectural models Strong communication and teamwork skills Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills - Experience in financial services asset management or fintech - Knowledge of tax-smart investing concepts and portfolio management - AWS certification or equivalent cloud credentials