Senior Lead Software Engineer, Data Platform

JPMorgan Chase

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Jersey City, NJ
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3 days ago
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TL;DR · Senior Lead Software Engineer, Data Platform

As a Sr Lead Software Engineer - Data Platform within the Corporate Technology team, you will serve as a senior individual contributor responsible for architecting, building, and operating data platform capabilities to ensure secure, scalable, and reliable data products. You will contribute to technical roadmaps for ingestion, transformation, orchestration, metadata, lineage, and data quality while designing reusable frameworks to standardize data onboarding and curation. Your daily work involves leading end-to-end delivery of complex initiatives, establishing engineering standards for resiliency and performance, and building automation for CI/CD and infrastructure as code. You will utilize modern programming languages and systems design skills to solve problems in distributed systems, batch and streaming ingestion, and data serving patterns. Additionally, you will navigate complex requirements regarding data governance, encryption, and auditability within a highly regulated environment.

What you'll do

  • Architect and build scalable data platform capabilities for ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and metadata management.
  • Design and implement reusable frameworks to standardize data onboarding, curation, and consumption.
  • Lead end-to-end delivery of complex initiatives from initial architecture through production rollout.
  • Establish engineering standards for system resiliency, performance, observability, and cost efficiency.
  • Develop automation for CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and policy as code to reduce operational toil.
  • Manage operational excellence through SLOs, monitoring, incident response, and root cause analysis.
  • Ensure platform solutions comply with security, risk, and regulatory data governance requirements.
  • Mentor engineers and establish reference architectures, patterns, and guardrails for partner teams.

What we're looking for

  • Significant experience delivering large-scale software platforms or data platforms in complex enterprise environments.
  • Strong distributed systems and platform engineering expertise including reliability, scalability, fault tolerance, and service design.
  • Hands-on experience with data platform domains such as batch/streaming ingestion, orchestration, processing, and serving patterns.
  • Proven ability to build production-grade systems with robust testing, deployment automation, monitoring, and operational controls.
  • Strong knowledge of data governance and control concepts including access management, encryption, retention, auditability, and privacy.
  • Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages and strong API and systems design skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead through influence as a senior individual contributor across multiple teams and stakeholders.
  • Experience in financial services or other highly regulated industries (preferred).

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