Lead Software Engineer - Java/Python, Data Engineering

Join a team where your engineering expertise drives impactful solutions for a global financial leader. Advance your career while shaping the future of data-driven risk assessment.

Job summary

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Sector Data Engineering team, you deliver secure and scalable solutions that support the firm s Global Know Your Customer (KYC) and Risk Assessment Data Platform. You collaborate with colleagues to drive best-in-class outcomes and set engineering standards. Your leadership helps define architecture and practices across multiple teams. Together, we create trusted platforms that power the firm s critical risk management initiatives.

Job responsibilities

• Develop secure, high-quality production code for data-intensive applications and platforms, and mentor other engineers
• Create durable, reusable software frameworks and patterns leveraged across teams and functions
• Drive adoption of advanced technical methods and practices aligned with industry standards and product development methodologies
• Advise cross-functional teams on technological matters within your domain of expertise
• Apply knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve automation at scale

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 at enterprise scale
• Expert in one or more programming languages, particularly Python and/or Java
• Advanced knowledge of software application development and technical processes, with considerable depth in one or more disciplines (e.g., cloud, AI/ML, data engineering)
• Experience in large-scale data processing, microservices, API design, Kafka, Redis, MemCached, observability tools (Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana), and orchestration frameworks (Airflow, Temporal)
• Advanced working knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases, vector stores, data lake architectures, and data governance
• Practical cloud-native experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Ability to present and effectively communicate with senior leaders and executives

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Experience with modern data platforms such as Databricks or Snowflake
• Deep hands-on experience with Spark/PySpark and other big data processing technologies
• Expertise in open-source table formats and catalog services such as Apache Iceberg
• Experience with LLM orchestration frameworks and model serving infrastructure or managed endpoints (AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI)

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