Senior Lead Software Engineer

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Commercial and Investment Banking, 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. You will design and deliver cloud-based BI and analytics solutions on large datasets, improve data performance and reliability, and use modern tooling (including AI-assisted development) to speed up high-quality delivery.  Your expertise in various technology domains will be counted on to set strategic direction and solve complex and mission critical problems, internally and externally. You will also drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

Our Commercial and Investment Bank relies on engineers to build and run the platforms that help corporations, governments, and institutions operate safely at global scale.  You’ll develop solutions for a bank entrusted with holding $18 trillion of assets and $393 billion in deposits.  Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk, and extends liquidity in markets spanning over 100 countries around the world.

Job responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Builds and evolves cloud-based BI and analytics solutions that turn large, complex datasets into reliable decision-ready insights
• Designs and owns managed ETL/ELT pipelines (e.g., AWS Glue, Airflow) with clear SLAs, monitoring, and cost/performance controls
• Models and maintains data warehouse structures that scale to very large volumes while staying easy to query and extend
• Delivers performant data products by applying query optimization, profiling, and performance monitoring techniques
• Develops dashboards and reporting experiences (e.g., Tableau) that clearly answer business questions and drive action
• Applies AI-enabled development practices (including intelligent agents and automation) to improve productivity and consistency
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• 5+ years of strong experience in the Business Intelligence domain with 5+ years of strong experience in Cloud Technologies (e.g. AWS/Azure/Google Cloud)
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Strong experience in managed ETL modern skills (e.g. Amazon Glue/Airflow).
• Highly proficient and knowledge about data warehousing concepts.
• Experience in designing BI solutions on large datasets with a hands-on experience on modern data visualization tools (e.g. Tableau)
• Understanding data and query optimization, query profiling, and query performance monitoring tools and techniques.
• Extensive knowledge on database design techniques and experience on working with extremely large data volumes at scale. 
• Proficient in leveraging AI technologies to enhance coding practices, including the development and deployment of intelligent agents and automation solutions
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Modern data stack experience (e.g., Lakehouse patterns, Delta/Iceberg/Hudi)
• Streaming/near-real-time data pipelines (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis)
• Infrastructure as Code and automated environment provisioning (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)
• CI/CD for data and analytics workloads, with automated testing and release gates
• Observability for data pipelines (metrics, logging, lineage, data quality monitoring)
• Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with modern query engines and performance tuning (e.g., Spark, Trino/Presto)

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

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.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans

J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.