As a Principal Software Engineer in Corporate Technology, you will be a senior individual contributor responsible for architecting, building, and operating firmwide data platform capabilities that enable secure, scalable, and reliable data products. You will set technical direction, drive engineering excellence, and partner across technology, product, controls, and business teams to deliver measurable outcomes across JPMorganChase.
Job Responsibilities
- Define and drive the technical strategy and roadmap for key data platform capabilities including ingestion, transformation, orchestration, metadata, lineage, and data quality.
- Design and implement scalable platform services and reusable frameworks that standardize data onboarding, curation, and consumption.
- Own end-to-end delivery for complex initiatives from discovery and architecture through build, rollout, and production readiness.
- Establish and enforce engineering standards for resiliency, performance, observability, capacity management, and cost efficiency.
- Lead design reviews and provide reference architectures, patterns, and guardrails adopted by multiple engineering teams.
- Build and maintain automation for CI/CD, infrastructure as code, policy as code, and repeatable onboarding to reduce operational toil.
- Drive operational excellence through SLOs, monitoring, incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
- Partner with security, risk, and controls stakeholders to ensure platform solutions meet regulatory, audit, and data governance requirements.
- Influence senior stakeholders through clear communication of trade-offs, risks, and progress using metrics and outcomes.
- Mentor and raise the bar for engineering practices through hands-on leadership, code reviews, and technical community engagement.
Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills
- Extensive experience delivering large-scale software platforms or data platforms in complex enterprise environments.
- Strong distributed systems and platform engineering expertise including reliability, scalability, fault tolerance, and service design.
- Hands-on experience with data platform domains such as batch and streaming ingestion, orchestration, data processing, and data serving patterns.
- Proven ability to build production-grade systems with robust testing, deployment automation, monitoring, and operational controls.
- Strong knowledge of data governance and control concepts including access management, encryption, retention, auditability, and privacy.
- Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages and strong API and systems design skills.
- Demonstrated ability to lead through influence as a senior individual contributor across multiple teams and stakeholders.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to varied audiences.
- Proven track record of being a highly motivated self-starter
Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills
- Experience building self-service platform products and improving developer experience through portals, templates, and golden paths.
- Experience operating platforms in cloud and containerized environments with infrastructure automation.
- Experience implementing metadata-driven architectures and standardized data product patterns.
- Experience building controls for sensitive data including data classification, policy enforcement, and privacy-by-design.
- Experience in financial services or other highly regulated industries.
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
Skills Required
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts
- 7+ years of applied software engineering experience for NAMR/APAC, India, LATAM, or Hong Kong roles
- Advanced applied software engineering experience for EMEA/LATAM-Brazil roles
- Hands-on experience with system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Expertise in one or more programming languages
- Experience designing and leading adoption of agentic AI-enabled development practices across teams
- Experience establishing human-in-the-loop validation, auditability, traceability, and secure sensitive-data handling standards
- Strong understanding of responsible AI use and controls in engineering workflows
- Ability to solve complex technology problems using expertise and new methods
- Ability to present and communicate effectively with senior leaders and executives
- Understanding of the business
- Practical cloud-native experience
JPMorganChase Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about JPMorganChase and has not been reviewed or approved by JPMorganChase.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is considered comprehensive, including medical, dental, and vision, alongside wellness and mental health resources. Some locations add onsite health centers and related wellbeing support.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k)-type savings plan and related financial benefits, with options such as employee stock purchase participation. Financial planning resources are also highlighted to support long-term savings.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave of 16 weeks for birth or adoption is available for all parents. Child care and back-up child care resources further reinforce family support.
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What We Do
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $3.7 trillion and operations worldwide. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small businesses, commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase & Co. serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Technology fuels every aspect of our company and is at the heart of everything we do. With over 50,000 technologists globally and an annual tech spend of $12 billion, we are dedicated to improving the design, analytics, development, coding, testing and application programming that goes into creating high quality software and new products. Learn more about technology at our firm, explore resources from our Distinguished Engineers, AI & ML researchers, and other experts; access the latest episode of our TechTrends podcast, and more at www.jpmorgan.com/technology. Information about JPMorgan Chase & Co. is available at www.jpmorganchase.com. ©2023 JPMorgan Chase & Co. All rights reserved. JPMorgan Chase is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans.
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