AI-First Lead Software Engineer — Data Mesh & Analytics

JPMorganChase; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to drive AI-first analytics, data engineering, and the modernization of the data mesh within the Global Prime Brokerage team. You will lead productized data lifecycles, semantic alignment, automated lineage, and governance while building autonomous agents for schema drift detection and transformation proposals.

You will collaborate across product, platform, risk, and domain teams to deliver secure, scalable analytics solutions and modern data

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts with 5+ years of applied experience.
• Proven leadership delivering AI-first analytics and data engineering at scale, including productized data mesh patterns.
• Experience developing data ingestion and integration processes for analytics-ready datasets.
• Hands-on with big data platforms (Spark, Databricks, Snowflake, Iceberg) and robust pipelines.
• Strong programming in Python and PySpark, or Java, with CI/CD and containerization.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business and tech teams to develop AI-first analytics and data product solutions.
• Define architecture for AI-driven data product lifecycle including semantic extraction and automated lineage.
• Build and operate autonomous data-engineering agents under human-in-the-loop controls.
• Design analytics platforms for real-time and batch analytics; enable self-service consumption.
• Establish monitoring and alerting for performance, scalability, availability, and reliability.
• Provide technical leadership and demos to peers, business partners, and senior leaders.
• Drive enterprise AI engineering practices to improve code quality, speed, and outcomes.
• Lead migration to a modern data mesh with Databricks/Iceberg/common services.
• Industrialize entity resolution with ML/LLM solutions and governance evidence generation.

Skills

AI-first analytics

Python

PySpark

Java

CI/CD

Containerization

Agile teams

Leadership

Data governance

ML pipelines

NLP/LLMs

Education

Formal software engineering training

Tools

Spark

Databricks

Snowflake

Iceberg

Job description

JPMorganChase is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to drive AI-first analytics, data engineering, and the modernization of the data mesh within the Global Prime Brokerage team. You will lead productized data lifecycles, semantic alignment, automated lineage, and governance while building autonomous agents for schema drift detection and transformation proposals.

You will collaborate across product, platform, risk, and domain teams to deliver secure, scalable analytics solutions and modern data