Data Lead Software Engineer

Job Description

Join us as we embark on a journey of collaboration and innovation, where your unique skills and talents will be valued and celebrated. Together we will create a brighter future and make a meaningful difference.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Consumer & Community Banking Open Banking team, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver data collection, storage, access, and analytics solutions in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for maintaining critical data pipelines and architectures across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

Job responsibilities

• Architect and oversee the design of complex data solutions that meet diverse business needs and customer requirements.
• Guide the evolution of logical and physical data models to support emerging business use cases and technological advancements.
• Build and manage end-to-end cloud-native data pipelines in AWS, leveraging your hands-on expertise with AWS components.
• Build analytical systems from the ground up, providing architectural direction, translating business issues into specific requirements, and identifying appropriate data to support solutions.
• Work across the Service Delivery Lifecycle on engineering major/minor enhancements and ongoing maintenance of existing applications.
• Conduct feasibility studies, capacity planning, and process redesign/re-engineering of complex integration solutions.
• Help others build code to extract raw data, coach the team on techniques to validate its quality, and apply your deep data knowledge to ensure the correct data is ingested across the pipeline.
• Guide the development of data tools used to transform, manage, and access data, and advise the team on writing and validating code to test the storage and availability of data platforms for resilience.
• Oversee the implementation of performance monitoring protocols across data pipelines, coaching the team on building visualizations and aggregations to monitor pipeline health.
• Coach others on implementing solutions and self-healing processes that minimize points of failure across multiple product features.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience 
• Extensive experience in managing the full lifecycle of data, from collection and storage to analysis and reporting.
• Proficiency in one or more large-scale data processing distributions such as Java or Python Spark along with knowledge on Data Pipeline (DPL), Data Modeling, Data warehouse, Data Migration and so-on.
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages.
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Strong organizational, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills; Strong documentation skills
• Proficiency in Python  or Java and proficiency in Spark
• Hands-on experience on AWS services and its components along with good understanding on Kubernetes. AWS Data Services: Proficiency in Lake formation, Glue ETL (or) EMR, S3, Glue Catalog, Athena, Kinesis (or) MSK, Airflow (or) Lambda + Step Functions + Event Bridge. 
• Data De/Serialization: Expertise in at least 2 of the formats: Parquet, Iceberg, AVRO, JSON-L
• AWS Data Security: Good Understanding of security concepts such as: Lake formation, IAM, Service roles, Encryption, KMS, Secrets Manager

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Familiarity with modern front-end technologies
• Experience designing and building REST API services using Java
• Exposure to cloud technologies - knowledge on Hybrid cloud architectures
• DevOps: Linux Scripting, Jenkins, Git, CI/CD, JIRA, TDD

About Us

Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America’s households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve all their financial needs.

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veterans

About the Team

Our Consumer & Community Banking division serves our Chase customers through a range of financial services, including personal banking, credit cards, mortgages, auto financing, investment advice, small business loans and payment processing. We’re proud to lead the U.S. in credit card sales and deposit growth and have the most-used digital solutions – all while ranking first in customer satisfaction.