Senior Manager of Software Engineering - Data Engineering Lead

United States Digital Space LLC; Karnataka; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase in India’s Karnataka region seeks a Senior Manager of Software Engineering - Data Engineering Lead to steer data engineering teams, oversee ETL transformations on AWS/DataBricks, and partner with Product and Business groups. The role emphasizes governance, security, and scalable data pipelines.

You will drive architecture, mentor engineers, implement AI-assisted development patterns, and deliver high-quality data solutions across multiple teams in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering with 5+ years of applied experience.
• 2+ years leading technologists to manage complex items.
• Advanced knowledge of application, data and infrastructure architecture.
• Experience with Big Data technologies (AWS, Spark, Kafka, Data Bricks) and Java/Python.
• Strong SQL and ETL experience on big data platforms.
• Unix shell scripting and relational databases proficiency.
• Data quality testing and issue resolution skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent communication across multiple management levels.

Responsibilities

• Provide direction and coaching for a team of engineers on data tasks.
• Collaborate with Product and Business Partners for alignment.
• Analyze requirements and design target state architectures and dataflows.
• Acquire, analyze, and interpret trends in complex data sets.
• Transform ETL logic on AWS Platform or Databricks.
• Suggest innovative data management solutions and quality practices.
• Develop or enhance services and scripts with governance and reuse.
• Design and code solutions using Agile practices for timely delivery.
• Lead enterprise AI-assisted SDLC practices across teams with measurable goals.
• Promote reuse of firm technology assets to improve efficiency.

Skills

Big Data

Spark

Kafka

DataBricks

Java

Python

SQL

Unix Shell

Data Quality

Stakeholder Mgmt

Tools

AWS

Databricks

SQL Server

Oracle

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION

When you mentor and advise multiple technical teams and move financial technologies forward, it's a big challenge with big impact. You were made for this.

As a Senior Manager of Software Engineering - Data Engineering Lead at JPMorgan Chase within Commercial and Investment Bank Technology, you will be required to apply your depth of knowledge and expertise to all aspects of the software development lifecycle, as well as partner continuously with your many stakeholders on a daily basis to stay focused on common goals. You will work in a collaborative, trusting, thought-provoking environment—one that encourages diversity of thought and creative solutions that are in the best interests of our customers globally.

Job Responsibilities

• Provide overall direction, oversight, and coaching for a team of entry-level to mid-level software engineers that work on basic to moderately complex tasks
• Ensure successful collaboration with Product and Business Partners
• Gather and understand requirements, design and contribute to the architecture, create target state architecture and dataflows.
• Acquire data from primary or secondary data sources, identify, analyze, and interpret trends or patterns in complex data sets
• Transform existing ETL logic on AWS Platform or Data Bricks
• Innovate new ways of managing, transforming and validating data, and apply quality assurance best practices to all work products
• Implement new or enhance services/scripts, establish and enforce guidelines to ensure consistency, quality and completeness of data assets
• Analyze, design and code business-related solutions, as well as core architectural changes, using an Agile programming approach resulting in software delivered on time and in budget
• Sets and scales operating practices for enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering and SDLC/TLM automation across multiple teams to improve delivery speed, quality, and operational outcomes; establishes measurable expectations (e.g., throughput, defect reduction, reliability) and ensures consistent validation, security, resiliency, and reuse of proven patterns.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to drive efficiency and support capacity unlock initiatives across teams, prioritizing reuse of existing firm technology assets.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience . In addition, 2 + years of experience leading technologists to manage and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise
• Advanced knowledge of application, data and infrastructure architecture disciplines
• Experience in a Big Data technologies (e.g. AWS, Spark, Kafka, Data Bricks etc.), along with experience in Java and Python
• Experience in writing efficient SQL's and implementing complex ETL transformations on big data platform
• Strong experience with UNIX shell scripting to automate file preparation and database loads, and familiarity with relational database environment (Oracle, SQL Server, etc.) leveraging databases, tables/views, stored procedures, agent jobs, etc.
• Experience in data quality testing; adept at writing test cases and scripts, presenting and resolving data issues
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy.
• Demonstrated independent problem solving skills and ability to develop solutions to complex analytical/data-driven problems, along with ability to communicate complex issues in a crisp and concise fashion to multiple levels of management
• Excellent interpersonal skills necessary to work effectively with colleagues at various levels of the organization and across multiple locations with ability to manage multiple priorities and projects coupled with the flexibility to quickly adapt to ever-evolving business needs
• Experience leading multi-team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and delivery tools, including defining governance/ways of working (human-in-the-loop validation, quality gates), measuring outcomes, and ensuring secure handling of sensitive inputs/outputs.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, resiliency/security implications, and control expectations; ability to coach managers/leads and influence leaders on safe scaling patterns.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience of working in a development teams, using agile techniques and Object Oriented development and scripting languages, is preferred
• Comfortable learning cutting edge technologies and applications to greenfield project
• Experience in Data Science, Machine Learning and AI is a plus
• Financial Services and Commercial banking experience is a plus
• Familiarity with NoSQL platforms(MongoDB, AWS Open Search) is a plus
• 3+ years of experience with Python is preferred
• 2+ years of Experience in Java Development