Job DescriptionWe have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Consumer & Community Banking Card Rewards team, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm's business objectives.
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
- Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- Lead a high-performing engineering team building and operating cloud-native data platforms that ingest, process, and serve large-scale batch and streaming data
- Own end-to-end delivery for data warehousing and multi-terabyte to petabyte-scale migration initiatives, ensuring reliability, performance, security, and cost efficiency
- Provide technical leadership across Java, Python, Spark, Snowflake, and AWS, while driving strong Agile practice, CI/CD automation, and operational excellence
- Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, psychological safety, and continuous learning
- Own multi-workstream roadmaps; plan releases, define milestones, track progress, and remove blockers to hit scope, schedule, and quality targets
- Create detailed estimates and work breakdown structures, manage dependencies, risks, and stakeholder expectations
- Define and evolve data platform architecture for batch and streaming use cases (event-driven, microservices, warehouse patterns)
- Lead large-scale data migration (on-prem to cloud), data profiling, reconciliation, lineage, quality (e.g., deduplication, schema validation), and backfills
- Define SLAs; implement monitoring/alerting; lead incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
- Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
- Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
- 8+ years hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing and operational stability and CI-CD process
- Hands-on practical experience in developing spark-based Frameworks for end-to-end ETL, ELT & reporting solutions using key components like Spark Core & Spark Streaming
- Strong coding in one or more languages (Java or Python)
- Experience building Data Warehouse platform
- Cloud implementation experience with AWS including:
- AWS Data Services: Proficiency in Lake formation, Glue ETL (or) EMR, S3, Glue Catalog, Athena, Airflow (or) Lambda + Step Functions + Event Bridge
- Data De/Serialization: Expertise in at least 2 of the formats: Parquet, Iceberg, AVRO, JSON
- AWS Data Security: Good Understanding of security concepts such as: Lake formation, IAM, Service roles, Encryption, KMS, Secrets Manager
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills- Experience in Snowflake and Databricks
- Experience in Gen AI skills
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
About UsChase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America's households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve all their financial needs.
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 meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
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About the TeamOur Consumer & Community Banking division serves our Chase customers through a range of financial services, including personal banking, credit cards, mortgages, auto financing, investment advice, small business loans and payment processing. We're proud to lead the U.S. in credit card sales and deposit growth and have the most-used digital solutions - all while ranking first in customer satisfaction.
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