Senior Lead Software Engineer, Data Platform

JPMorgan Chase

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Work type: On-site
Location: Jersey City, NJ
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 53 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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As a Sr Lead Software Engineer - Data Platform, you will join the Corporate Technology data platform team as a senior individual contributor. You will architect, build, and operate data platform capabilities to ensure secure, scalable, and reliable data products. Your daily responsibilities include designing scalable platform services, implementing reusable frameworks for data onboarding, and leading end-to-end delivery for complex initiatives. You will establish engineering standards for resiliency, performance, and observability while building automation for CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and policy as code. You must possess expertise in distributed systems, batch and streaming ingestion, orchestration, and data serving patterns. You will utilize modern programming languages and API design skills to solve problems regarding data governance, encryption, and metadata-driven architectures within a highly regulated environment.

Skills

Distributed Systems Platform Engineering CI/CD Infrastructure as Code Policy as Code Streaming Data Governance Systems Design Monitoring Observability Data Quality data, lineage

What you'll do

Architect and build scalable data platform capabilities for ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and metadata.
Design and implement reusable frameworks to standardize data onboarding, curation, and consumption.
Lead end-to-end delivery of complex initiatives from initial discovery through production rollout.
Establish engineering standards for resiliency, performance, observability, and cost efficiency.
Build and maintain automation for CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and policy as code.
Drive operational excellence through SLOs, monitoring, incident response, and root cause analysis.
Ensure platform solutions meet regulatory, audit, and data governance requirements with security stakeholders.
Mentor engineers and raise standards through hands-on leadership and technical code reviews.

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 and streaming ingestion, orchestration, data processing, and data 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).