Lead Software Engineer - Data Platform Engineer

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase, within the Commercial & Investment Banking – Data Analytics – Payments Technology team, youare 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.

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Designs, builds, and maintains scalable data pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows for batch and real‑time processing using Spark, Airflow, Kafka, and Flink
• Develops data platform components including data cataloging, data quality frameworks, and semantic/metrics layers with embedded governance, lineage, and compliance standards
• Implements data modeling strategies (fact and dimensional, wide tables) to support analytics, reporting, and downstream consumption
• Partners with analytics teams, product managers, and business stakeholders to translate data requirements into production‑grade solutions
• Develops secure high‑quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes‑oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
• Leads development of the Agentic Autonomous Lakehouse capability - automating governed self‑service pipeline provisioning and lakehouse operations (health/cost/performance analysis, best‑practice enforcement)
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading‑edge technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience
• Hands‑on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Demonstrated professional experience focused on software engineering or data platform development
• Advanced in one or more programming languages(s);
  Python, Java and SQL
• Hands‑on experience with distributed data processing frameworks such as Apache Spark and Flink
• Solid understanding of data modeling techniques (star schema, snowflake) and query optimization
• Experience designing and operating data pipelines on Databricks using orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow
• Proficiency with cloud data services (AWS S3, Glue, Redshift, Athena, EMR, Lake Formation, or equivalent)
• Experience engineering production‑grade data platforms on Kubernetes with open catalog integration (e.g., Apache Iceberg, Unity Catalog, Open Metadata) for scalable data discovery, lineage, and governance.
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Experience developing Agentic AI, LLMs, RAG architectures, MCP, vector databases, and embedding‑based retrieval systems

• Hands‑on familiarity with Data Platform and transformation framework development
• Experience with data mesh or data product architectures
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with data observability, quality, and metadata management tools
• Experience with semantic layers, metrics stores, or BI platforms (Tableau, dbt Metrics)