Senior Lead Software Engineer - Data

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer - Data at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Sector - Cloud Financial Management Technology group, 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 will d rive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

Job responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
• 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
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Proficiency in Python for data engineering and advanced PySpark/SparkSQL (DataFrame APIs, UDFs/pandas UDFs)
• Spark performance/tuning skills: partitioning, shuffle minimization, broadcast joins, AQE, skew handling, caching, and reliable backfills
• S3 data lake design and security: bucket/partition layout, lifecycle/versioning, SSE-KMS encryption, cross-account access, and Lake Formation/IAM
• Experience with open table formats and lakehouse patterns (e.g., Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, Apache Hudi): table design/evolution, partitioning, snapshot/time-travel concepts, and cross-engine interoperability
• Experience with distributed columnar data warehouses (e.g., Redshift, BigQuery, Snowflake): dimensional modeling, performance tuning, bulk load/unload
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems

• Ability to translate business requirements into data models, contracts, SLAs, and measurable outcomes with clear business impact.
• Knowledge of FinOps practices: budget/tagging discipline, right-sizing and autoscaling, storage/query cost optimization, and cost-aware design trade-offs.
• Experience implementing data quality and reliability guardrails aligned to business SLAs (freshness, completeness, accuracy) with actionable alerting.
• DevOps/IaC for data: CI/CD for Spark/Glue jobs, Terraform/CloudFormation/CDK, git-based versioning, and blue/green or canary publishes.
• Experience building and operating AWS Glue 3.x/4.x ETL jobs and orchestrating via Step Functions or Glue Workflows.

JPMorganChase, 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.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in 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. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans