As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Technology, 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 firm27s business objectives.

Job responsibilities

• Execute creative, data-driven software solutions, including design, development, and technical troubleshooting, with the ability to think beyond routine approaches to solve technical problems.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and processing workflows using Python, PySpark, SQL, and Databricks on AWS, processing and transforming large-scale financial datasets for analytics and reporting.
• Develop fact and dimension data models for reporting and analytics.
• Write secure, high-quality production code, and review and debug code written by others.
• Ensure data quality, consistency, security, and lineage throughout all stages of data processing and transformation, implementing monitoring and alerting mechanisms to maintain pipeline reliability.
• Support data migration and modernization initiatives, transitioning legacy systems to cloud-based data warehouses.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to develop data management strategies, transforming data into insights that drive strategic decisions.
• Document data flows, logic, and transformation rules to maintain transparency and facilitate knowledge sharing.
• 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.

• Utilize AI tools to accelerate development and testing of data pipelines (e.g. GitHub CoPilot, Claude Code).

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Proven experience in data management, ETL/ELT pipeline development, and large-scale data processing.
• Proficiency in SQL, Python, and PySpark, with experience in query optimization and performance tuning.
• Hands-on experience with data lake platforms (Databricks, Apache Spark, or similar).
• Experience with AWS cloud services (S3, ECS, SNS/SQS, Lambda, etc.).
• 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
• Strong understanding of data quality, security, and lineage best practices.
• Experience with cloud-based data warehouse migration and modernization.
• Proficient in CI/CD, continuous delivery methods (Jules/Jenkins, Spinnaker, Sonar), the full Software Development Life Cycle, and Agile methodologies.
• Excellent problem-solving, troubleshooting, and analytical skills with ability to investigate data issues, identify root causes, and implement solutions.

• Knowledge of data pipeline tools such as PySpark, Snowflake, or Databricks.
• Experience with data orchestration tools (Airflow, Step Functions, etc.).
• Databricks or AWS certifications.
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems.