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Lead Software Engineer - Java

The Lead Software Engineer will design, build, and optimize robust ETL data pipelines while architecting scalable data lake and warehouse solutions on AWS. Additionally, the role involves leading and mentoring a team of engineers to ensure operational stability, performance, and the implementation of best practices across technical projects.

Jersey City, New Jersey, United StatesonsiteFULL_TIME

Posted

About the role

What will you do at JPMorganChase?

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you

can push the limits of what's possible.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Technology

Office, you will lead a technical area and drive impact across teams,

technologies, and projects spanning multiple departments. You will leverage your

deep expertise in software engineering, applications, technical processes, and

product management to deliver complex projects and initiatives.

Job responsibilities

* Design, build, maintain and optimize robust ETL data pipelines using

Databricks (Spark, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog) and ensure efficient ingestion,

transformation, and storage

* Collaborate with data product owner, business stakeholders, and ensure best

practices in data engineering, software engineering and resilient cloud

architecture

* Architect and implement data lake and data warehouse solutions leveraging AWS

services (S3, Glue, SQS, SNS, Lambda, EMR, etc.)

* Collaborate with cross team to propose and build new solution for supporting

overall application platform by the means of observability, orchestration,

resiliency, developer experience, automation.

* Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring

issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and

systems

* Lead and mentor a team of engineers, providing technical guidance and code

reviews

* Monitor, troubleshoot, and tune data pipelines and cloud resources for

optimal performance, reliability, and cost efficiency

* Promote reusability across data pipelines and operational simplicity by

introducing good observability standards

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

* Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+

years applied experience

* 5+ years of hands-on professional experience in one or more programming

language(s), including Java or Python for data engineering tasks

* Hands-on experience with Databricks (Spark, Delta Lake, notebooks, job

orchestration), AWS data services(EMR, Athena, Glue, S3)

* Hands-on experience utilizing Apache Spark for large-scale data processing,

including developing and optimizing data pipelines, performing real-time and

batch analytics, and leveraging Spark’s libraries for machine learning and

data transformation to drive actionable business insights.

* Experience of leveraging AI tools for Developer productivity increase (SDD,

Agentic AI, Skills, Copilot, Claude Code etc.)

* Experience with modern monitoring and logging tools (e.g. Dynatrace, Splunk,

Grafana, Prometheus).

* Proficiency in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle with

familiarity on CI/CD, DevOps, and infrastructure-as-code tools in cloud

environments

* Proven leadership experience in leading and mentoring varying levels of

software engineers

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

* Application development experience in delivering complicated enterprise

Investment Banking application for Market Surveillance, or Investment Banking

Front-office Trading Systems or Analytics Systems in FX, Commodities,

Equities and Equities Derivatives domains

* Familiarity with SpringBoot based microservices architecture and RESTful API

development.

* Experience in Container technologies (i.e. Kubernetes and Docker)

* Experience in Kafka streaming

* Financial Products knowledge of Futures & Options, FX, Commodities, Equities

and Equities Derivatives, as well as trade lifecycles and/or order workflow

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

[https://careers.jpmorgan.com/us/en/how-we-hire/faqs] for more information about

requesting an accommodation.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including

Disability/Veterans

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from

finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an

essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses,

clients, customers and employees up for success.

Which skills does this role require?

JavaPythonDatabricksApache SparkAWSData engineeringETL pipelinesCloud architectureSoftware development life cycleCI/CDDevOpsInfrastructure-as-codeLeadershipMentoringObservabilitySparkDelta LakeUnity CatalogS3GlueEMRAthenaETLData EngineeringCloud ArchitectureAgentic AICopilotREST APIsMachine Learning

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