Lead Software Engineer - Python​/PySpark​/Databricks​/AWS

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As a Lead Software Engineer - Python/PySpark/Databricks/AWS at JPMorgan

Chase within the Corporate Technology team, 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.

• 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
• 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 communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• 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.

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• 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
• Hands‑on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Experience building and operating Databricks Lakehouse solutions hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS), including Amazon S3, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Key Management Service (KMS), basic networking concepts (VPC/security groups), and logging/auditing.
• Experience using Delta Lake (ACID‑compliant tables, partitioning strategies, schema evolution) and Apache Spark on Databricks, including performance optimization (cluster sizing, skew mitigation, join strategies, caching, and file sizing/compaction).
• Experience delivering batch and streaming data pipelines (Structured Streaming, incremental processing, backfills, late‑arriving data handling) and implementing governance/security controls in Databricks (e.g., Unity Catalog, table/column‑level permissions, credential passthrough where applicable), with operational ownership including monitoring/alerting, incident response, root‑cause analysis (RCA), and service level objective/service level agreement (SLO/SLA) management.
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s) including Python, Py Spark
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Architect Databricks Lakehouse solutions, including bronze/silver/gold (or equivalent)…