Lead Python & Data Platform Engineer | AWS, Big Data, AI

Testing Site - JPMC; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in Jersey City is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join Corporate Technology and drive secure, scalable technology products. You will be a core technical contributor shaping solutions across data, analytics, and automation platforms.

You will lead design and development, mentor engineers, and promote best practices in CI/CD, testing, and governance while leveraging AWS, Databricks, Spark, and modern web frameworks to deliver real-time risk insights.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering with 5+ years of experience.
• Hands-on system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Proficiency in Python, Databricks, Spark, and data pipelines.
• Strong cloud knowledge (AWS/Azure/GCP) and data warehousing (Snowflake, Databricks).
• Leadership of engineering teams and delivery of complex projects.
• Experience with Agile, CI/CD, code reviews, automated testing, and documentation.
• Experience with data cataloging and metadata tools (Collibra, Atlan, AWS Glue, Databricks Unity Catalog).
• Automation and continuous delivery expertise.
• Understanding of SDLC, security, and resilience.

Responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions and technical troubleshooting beyond routine approaches.
• Develops secure production code and reviews code written by others.
• Defines and drives the technology roadmap for data, analytics, and automation.
• Leads adoption of technologies including Databricks, Snowflake, AWS, and modern web frameworks.
• Architects scalable, secure solutions for valuation control, pricing, and compliance.
• Champions AI, ML, and analytics to deliver real-time risk insights.
• Identifies opportunities to automate remediation to improve stability.
• Desgins data pipelines, analytics workflows, and reporting with Python, Databricks, Spark.
• Develops web apps/dashboards for valuation and risk management (React, Angular).
• Builds data models, ETL/ELT processes, and integration frameworks for large-scale data.
• Ensures data quality, security, lineage, and governance across platforms.

Skills

Python

Databricks

Spark

Cloud platforms

Snowflake

CI/CD pipelines

Agile development

Data governance

Data pipelines

Leadership

Tools

Collibra

Atlan

AWS Glue

Databricks Unity Catalog

Git

Job description

JPMorganChase in Jersey City is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join Corporate Technology and drive secure, scalable technology products. You will be a core technical contributor shaping solutions across data, analytics, and automation platforms.

You will lead design and development, mentor engineers, and promote best practices in CI/CD, testing, and governance while leveraging AWS, Databricks, Spark, and modern web frameworks to deliver real-time risk insights.