Senior Lead Software Engineer - Risk Technology Data Platform & Strategy
JPMorgan Chase4 days ago
Base Salary
$176k - $260k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the technical direction, architecture, and delivery of a multi-tenant enterprise risk data platform using Databricks, AWS, and lakehouse patterns.
- Build secure production-grade ingestion, transformation, and serving pipelines across batch, streaming, and change data capture workflows.
- Automate tenant onboarding, schema and catalog provisioning, pipeline orchestration, and governed data product publishing.
- Build infrastructure as code, deployment automation, preventative controls, and policy-aligned guardrails.
- Integrate data governance, entitlements, least-privilege access, approval workflows, data protection, lineage, auditability, and data quality into the platform.
- Define reliability and observability practices, including SLOs, SLAs, metrics, logs, traces, incident management, and root-cause analysis.
- Guide architecture trade-offs, technology evaluations, modernization efforts, and responsible use of AI-assisted software development tools.
- Influence senior Risk and Technology stakeholders, align roadmaps, prioritize feature requests, and resolve control findings.
- Mentor engineers and leads and help build a high-performing, inclusive engineering culture.
Requirements
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and at least 5 years of applied experience.
- Hands-on experience architecting and delivering large-scale enterprise data platforms such as multi-tenant lakehouses or data meshes.
- Advanced proficiency in Python and/or Java or Scala and SQL, with experience maintaining production systems in regulated environments.
- Deep experience with Apache Spark, Databricks including Unity Catalog, and open table formats such as Delta Lake or Apache Iceberg.
- Experience with CDC from relational sources, event streaming, file and API ingestion, schema evolution, and data contracts.
- Practical AWS cloud-native experience, including infrastructure as code and CI/CD in policy-governed environments.
- Strong expertise in data governance, fine-grained access controls, entitlement workflows, data classification, lineage, data quality, data residency, and sensitive-data handling.
- Experience with microservices and API design, orchestration, observability, SLO/SLA definition, incident management, and root-cause analysis.
- Proven technical leadership in architecture reviews, senior-stakeholder influence, and mentoring senior engineers and leads.
- Experience leading effective use of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development tools and validating AI-generated outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
- Strong understanding of responsible AI practices for engineering workflows and secure handling of sensitive inputs and outputs.
- Preferred: bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
- Preferred: financial-services risk data knowledge, AWS-native analytics and data services experience, and experience building self-service governed data platforms.
Benefits
- Competitive total rewards package with base salary, and eligible roles may receive commission-based pay or discretionary incentive compensation.
- Comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, and financial coaching.
- Equal opportunity employer with reasonable accommodations for religious practices, mental health needs, and physical disabilities.
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.