Sr Lead Software Engineer - Data Platform

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Jersey City, NJ, USA
Hybrid
Senior level
Financial Services
We’re one of the world’s biggest technology-driven companies
The Role
Architect, build, and operate secure, scalable data platform capabilities covering ingestion, transformation, orchestration, metadata, lineage, and data quality. Lead complex initiatives from architecture through production, establish reliability and engineering standards, automate deployment and onboarding, and drive operational excellence. Partner with security, risk, controls, and business teams on governance and regulatory requirements while mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction across teams.
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As a Senior Lead Software Engineer for the Corporate Technology data platform, you will be a senior individual contributor responsible for architecting, building, and operating data platform capabilities that enable secure, scalable, and reliable data products. You will provide technical leadership, drive engineering excellence, and partner across technology, product, controls, and business teams to deliver measurable outcomes across JPMorganChase.

Job Responsibilities
  • Contribute to 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.
  • Lead end-to-end delivery for complex initiatives or major workstreams from discovery and architecture through build, rollout, and production readiness.
  • Establish and apply engineering standards for resiliency, performance, observability, capacity management, and cost efficiency within your platform area.
  • Lead and/or participate in design reviews and contribute reference architectures, patterns, and guardrails used by partner 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 for services you own.
  • Partner with security, risk, and controls stakeholders to ensure platform solutions meet regulatory, audit, and data governance requirements.
  • Communicate trade-offs, risks, and progress to stakeholders using clear narratives, 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
  • Significant 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.

About Us
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

About the TeamOur Corporate Technology team relies on smart, driven people like you to develop applications and provide tech support for all our corporate functions across our network. Your efforts will touch lives all over the financial spectrum and across all our divisions: Global Finance, Corporate Treasury, Risk Management, Human Resources, Compliance, Legal, and within the Corporate Administrative Office. You’ll be part of a team specifically built to meet and exceed our evolving technology needs, as well as our technology controls agenda.

Skills Required

  • Significant experience delivering large-scale software 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 batch and streaming ingestion, orchestration, data processing, and data serving patterns.
  • Experience building production-grade systems with robust testing, deployment automation, monitoring, and operational controls.
  • Strong knowledge of data governance and controls, including access management, encryption, retention, auditability, and privacy.
  • Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages and strong API and systems design skills.
  • Ability to lead through influence as a senior individual contributor across multiple teams and stakeholders.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills for explaining complex technical concepts to varied audiences.
  • Proven track record of being a highly motivated self-starter.
  • 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 classification, policy enforcement, and privacy by design.
  • Experience in financial services or another highly regulated industry.

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.

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
289,097 Employees
Year Founded: 1799

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.

Why Work With Us

Our technologists work on a diverse range of solutions that include strategic technology initiatives, big data, mobile, electronic payments, machine learning, cybersecurity, enterprise cloud development, and other state-of-the-art technologies.

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