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Senior Lead Software Engineer - SRE/Databricks

JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Jersey City, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 22 Oct 2025

About the role

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The Chief Data & Analytics Office (CDAO) at JPMorgan Chase is responsible for accelerating the firm’s data and analytics journey. This includes ensuring the quality, integrity, and security of the company's data, as well as leveraging this data to generate insights and drive decision-making. The CDAO is also responsible for developing and implementing solutions that support the firm’s commercial goals by harnessing artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to develop new products, improve productivity, and enhance risk management effectively and responsibly.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the AIML Data Platforms and Chief Data and Analytics Team, you will develop and deliver advanced technology products focused on data and analytics. Tackle complex cloud data platform challenges, especially around Datalakes Tools. In this role you will work in an agile environment, collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Job responsibilities

  • 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
  • Solves the companies most challenging cloud data platform problems by building innovative technical solutions around Data Lake Tools.
  • Designs, implements, and maintains a managed AWS Databricks platform, and provides engineering and operational support for the platform to SRE and app teams.
  • Performs platform design, set-up and configuration, workspace administration, resource monitoring, providing engineering support to data engineering teams, Data Science/ML, and Application/integration teams.
  • 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
  • Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, and respect

 

 Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills 

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
  • Hands-on experience with Python and/or Java application program development with use of automated unit testing
  • Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
  • Hands-on practical experience with terraform development and understanding of terraform enterprise
  • Hands-on experience with GitHub / Bitbucket code versioning tool, Jenkins build tool  and pypi / maven artifactory integrations
  • Knowledge of Big Data distributed compute frameworks like Spark

 

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills 

  • Exposure to AWS & Databricks Platform administration
  • Experience with Agile development processes, as needed (SCRUM/KANBAN) using JIRA.
  • Experience in Data pipelines using Spark
  • Experience in managing product release lifecycle at enterprise level.

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 m

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