Sr. Principal Software Engineer
JPMorgan Chase17 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction and provide regional leadership for the India-based Markets Data Lake engineering team.
- Mentor senior, staff, and developing engineers; establish engineering practices, career-development pathways, and local technical depth.
- Own regional delivery of major platform initiatives and coordinate execution across global teams and time zones.
- Architect data products, contracts, schemas, SLAs, ownership models, lifecycle controls, and interoperability standards for the data mesh.
- Build self-service platform capabilities for publishing, cataloging, discovering, versioning, querying, and distributing data products.
- Design federated computational governance and policy-as-code frameworks for security, quality, entitlements, retention, and compliance.
- Own data classification, metadata management, lineage, data quality, retention, auditability, and reproducibility across data products.
- Design fine-grained row- and column-level authorization, including ABAC, RBAC, policy-based access control, entitlement propagation, and least-privilege access.
- Ensure natural-language-generated and raw SQL queries execute within the caller’s entitlement scope without bypasses.
- Harden identity and access through enterprise identity-provider integration, OAuth2, token lifecycle management, secrets handling, and access auditing.
- Lead design documents, RFCs, architecture reviews, and cross-team technical alignment.
- Build hands-on reference implementations for critical governance and authorization capabilities and advise leaders on responsible AI adoption and controls.
- Support interviewing, hiring, onboarding, and raising the engineering bar across the India hub.
Requirements
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 10+ years of applied experience.
- Significant experience architecting large-scale data platforms and providing regional or site technical leadership.
- Deep expertise in data governance and authorization at scale, including row- and column-level security, ABAC, RBAC, policy-based access control, data classification, lineage, and audit.
- Experience designing secure, governed cloud data platforms with identity and OAuth2 token-based authorization in an engine-agnostic manner.
- Experience with data mesh or federated data platforms, data products, data contracts, and federated or computational governance.
- Experience designing and scaling agentic AI-enabled development patterns with human-in-the-loop validation, traceability, auditability, and secure handling of sensitive data.
- Strong understanding of responsible AI, security, resiliency, data sensitivity, and risk-based governance.
- Strong SQL, data modeling, and semantic or metrics-layer experience.
- Proficiency in a primary backend language such as Python, Java, Go, or a similar language, plus policy-as-code tooling.
- Excellent communication, design-document, stakeholder-management, and cross-time-zone collaboration skills.
- Preferred experience in capital markets or financial-services data and related regulatory and privacy requirements.
- Preferred experience building engineering teams in a global delivery or India hub model.
- Preferred familiarity with data catalogs, lineage, governance tools, natural-language or LLM-agent data access through MCP, and entitlement-safe SQL generation.
- Preferred familiarity with Iceberg, Delta, Hudi, Kafka, Spark, Flink, Terraform, and CI/CD policy gates.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About JPMorgan Chase
JPMorgan Chase provides consumer and commercial banking, payments, credit card, wealth management, and corporate and investment banking services to individuals, businesses, institutions, and governments. The public company (NYSE: JPM) earns revenue from interest, fees, trading, and asset management across operations in more than 100 markets. Headquartered in New York City with roots dating to 1799, it serves retail customers and prominent corporate and government clients through brands including Chase and J.P. Morgan.