Lead Software Engineer - Data Engineer

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As a Lead Software Engineer - Data Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Cloud Financial Management Technology group, 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.

Job responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or breakdown technical problems
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• 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.
• 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
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Proficient experience in system design, testing, and operational ownership
• Advanced Python and cloud-native engineering on AWS (e.g., IAM, VPC, KMS, CloudWatch)
• Proven delivery of production ETL/ELT pipelines (batch and/or streaming) on AWS using services such as AWS Glue, Amazon EMR, AWS Lambda, and orchestration via Amazon MWAA (Airflow) and/or AWS Step Functions
• Strong data engineering fundamentals: CDC/incremental processing, backfills, idempotency, late-arriving data handling, and schema evolution
• Data platform experience with AWS analytics and storage services (e.g., Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Athena, AWS Lake Formation/Glue Data Catalog) and streaming/messaging (e.g., Amazon Kinesis, Amazon MSK)
• Data reliability practices: data quality controls, monitoring/alerting, CI/CD for pipelines (e.g., CodePipeline/CodeBuild), performance & cost optimization, and security/governance compliance (e.g., CloudTrail, least-privilege access)
• 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
• Practical experience leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to accelerate advanced coding workflows