Sr. Lead Software Engineer - Data Engineer

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As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Corporate and Investment Banking - Securities Services 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. Drive 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
• Executes software solutions, designs, develops, and troubleshoots software solutions, applying innovative thinking to solve complex technical challenges

• Write secure, high-quality production code and maintain robust algorithms that integrate seamlessly with enterprise systems using Python, Java, Agentic AI and coding assistants.

• Produce architecture and design artifacts for complex applications, ensuring all design constraints are met throughout software development

• Implement enterprise semantic / ontology layer accelerated with agentic metadata mining

• Design and implement robust data ingestion & curation pipelines to bring diverse datasets into the cloud, Knowledgebase, Databricks

• Contribute to software engineering communities of practice and participate in events exploring new and emerging technologies

• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• 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
• Adds to the 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
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s) including Python, Spark, Java and SQL.
• Strong experience in system design, application development, testing, and ensuring operational stability. Experience in data and semantic modeling

• Experience with agentic AI frameworks such as ADK, LangChain/LangGraph, AutoGen or CrewAI

• Demonstrated expertise in software applications and technical processes within disciplines such as data platforms, cloud, Agentic AI frameworks and AI/ML

• Solid grasp of agile methodologies, including CI/CD, application resiliency, and security best practices

• 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
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience in data engineering, with a strong understanding of data modeling and ETL processing.

• Experience with Databricks, CockroachDB, Apache Iceberg, Trino, Springboot, Kafka, RESTful APIs and AWS.

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

J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.