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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Technology, 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 are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.
Job responsibilities
- Architect the lake house: design bronze/silver/gold (or equivalent) layers, domain data products
- Deliver ingestion at scale: implement resilient ingestion from AWS sources into Databricks (batch + streaming), including CDC where needed.
- Build maintainable pipelines: use Delta Live Tables (DLT) and/or standard Jobs with clear modular structure, testing, and documentation.
- Operational excellence: productionize workloads via Databricks Workflows/Jobs, robust retries, checkpointing, idempotency, and safe re-runs.
- Governance by design: enforce least privilege, data classification (PII), auditing, lineage/metadata, and controlled sharing/consumption.
- Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.
- Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.
- Performance & cost management: tune Spark/Delta workloads, right-size clusters, optimize storage layout, and manage job/warehouse spend.
- Lead and mentor: set engineering standards, run design reviews, drive code quality, and upskill engineers in Spark/Databricks best practices, cross-functional delivery: translate stakeholder needs into technical plans, communicate tradeoffs, and align with security/platform teams.
- CI/CD and IaC: Terraform (preferred) for Databricks + AWS resources; promotion across environments.
- Testing: unit/integration tests for transformations, data quality checks, contract testing, and replay/backfill procedures, version control & code review discipline; clear documentation and runbooks.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years hands on Software Development Life Cycle experience
- Strong data engineering experience, including proven leading delivery/architecture for multi-team data platforms.
- Hands-on experience building and operating a Databricks Lakehouse Hosted in AWS
- Deep experience with Delta Lake (ACID tables, partitioning, schema evolution,
- Proven experience with Spark on Databricks (performance tuning, cluster sizing, skew mitigation, joins, caching, file sizing).
- Experience with streaming and batch pipelines (Structured Streaming; incremental processing; backfills; late-arriving data).
- Strong AWS fundamentals for data platforms: S3, IAM, KMS, networking basics (VPC/security groups), logging/auditing.
- Experience implementing data governance/security controls in Databricks (e.g., Unity Catalog, table/column permissions, credential passthrough patterns as applicable).
Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices
Demonstrated ownership of reliability: monitoring/alerting, incident response, RCA, and SLO/SLA 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
Skills Required
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years hands on Software Development Life Cycle experience
- Strong data engineering experience, including proven leading delivery/architecture for multi-team data platforms
- Hands-on experience building and operating a Databricks Lakehouse hosted in AWS
- Deep experience with Delta Lake (ACID tables, partitioning, schema evolution)
- Proven experience with Spark on Databricks (performance tuning, cluster sizing, skew mitigation, joins, caching, file sizing)
- Experience with streaming and batch pipelines (Structured Streaming; incremental processing; backfills; late-arriving data)
- Strong AWS fundamentals for data platforms: S3, IAM, KMS, networking basics (VPC/security groups), logging/auditing
- Experience implementing data governance/security controls in Databricks (e.g., Unity Catalog, table/column permissions, credential passthrough)
- Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools and establishing validation standards
- Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows and coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption
- Demonstrated ownership of reliability: monitoring/alerting, incident response, RCA, and SLO/SLA management
- CI/CD and IaC: Terraform for Databricks and AWS resources; promotion across environments
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 — Medical, dental, vision, and mental-health coverage are broad, with wellness incentives, on-site or virtual care, and an EAP offering coaching and counseling. Plan materials emphasize accessible options, including multiple medical choices and tools to manage costs.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave extends up to 16 weeks for all parents, supplemented by paid Critical Caregiver Leave. Family resources include backup childcare via Bright Horizons, lactation support and milk-shipping, family-building assistance, and even a free five-month SNOO rental for newborns.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a 401(k) with an annual company match and automatic pay credits for most employees, with a legacy pension available to earlier hires. An Employee Stock Purchase Plan at a 5% discount further supports long-term savings.
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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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