Lead Software Engineer - Data Engineering & Applied AI

Socket.dev; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in the Asset & Wealth Management division seeks a Data Engineering & Applied AI Lead Software Engineer to design and deliver AI-enabled data platform capabilities supporting data management, lineage, quality, and retention.

You will drive enterprise AI practices, mentor engineers, and own platform services from UI to data pipelines, ensuring secure, scalable solutions in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in Software Engineering and 5+ years applied experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of AI-assisted software development tools with ability to validate outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity and secure handling of inputs/outputs.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver AI-enabled data platform capabilities powering data management products.
• Lead adoption of enterprise AI-assisted engineering practices to improve code quality and delivery speed.
• Own end-to-end delivery of data management products across UI, APIs, services, and data pipelines.
• Develop secure production code and review code written by others.

Skills

AI tooling

Data architecture

End-to-end delivery

Security practices

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering

Tools

Spark

Kafka

Airflow

Snowflake

AWS

Job description

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.

As a Data Engineering & Applied AI Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Asset & Wealth Management, 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:

• Designing, developing, and delivering AI-enabled platform capabilities that power next-generation data management products (Data Quality, Metadata Management, Lineage, Data Retention and Destruction)
• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.
• Hands on design and development of agentic production data platform with full stack application ownership.
• AI first mindset in developing code using Claude Code, building agents to make application/platform autonomous.
• Develop AI skills, agents, MCP server in support of product capabilities to deliver business value
• 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
• Leverages enterprise-authorized AI coding assist tools within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and productivity across complex deliverables (e.g., code generation/refactoring, unit test creation, documentation), while validating outputs through peer review, automated testing, and secure coding standards; contributes learnings and reusable patterns to improve broader team effectiveness.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Formal training or certification in Software Engineering and 5+ years applied experience
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices
• Strong knowledge of data architecture and modeling patterns, including dimensional modeling and database design (normalization/denormalization).
• Use enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development tools (coding, testing, troubleshooting, documentation) with rigorous validation of outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
• Apply and coach responsible AI practices, including data sensitivity, secure input/output handling, and resiliency/security standards.
• Own end-to-end delivery of data management products: operate/maintain/modernize existing applications and build greenfield capabilities across UI, APIs, services, integrations, and data pipelines in a federated model.
• Design and deliver platform services for metadata, lineage, data contracts, data quality, and retention/destruction via well-defined interfaces and workflows.
• Evaluate open-source solutions through rapid POCs with success criteria; lead selection, customization, and enterprise hardening for reliability, security, and operational support.
• Build workflow orchestration and policy enforcement services, plus scalable batch/streaming integrations (schema evolution, backfills, error handling, contract-driven interoperability).
• Establish production-grade operations and controls (SRE practices, monitoring/on-call, incident response/RCA, auditability, least-privilege, disciplined change management) and deliver governed agentic capabilities (safe tool/function calling, autonomy tiers, access-controlled RAG, evaluation/monitoring, audit trails, rollback/fallback) while leading through influence, design reviews, and mentoring.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Preferred financial services or Wealth Management experience, data governance or data management domain expertise, and experience evaluating and enterprise-hardening open-source software.
• Frontend: React or Angular with TypeScript.
• Backend: Python, Java, or Kotlin with REST or GraphQL.
• Data Engineering/Platform: Spark, Kafka, Airflow, Snowflake, and AWS.
• Platform engineering: containers, CI/CD, observability, and controlled release practices.
• Applied AI with LLMs: Claude Code, Agent, Skills, RAG, embeddings, prompt or configuration management, evaluation and guardrails, and agent tool or function calling
• Bachelor's degree required. Advanced degree is a plus

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.

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

J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management delivers industry-leading investment management and private banking solutions. Asset Management provides individuals, advisors and institutions with strategies and expertise that span the full spectrum of asset classes through our global network of investment professionals. Wealth Management helps individuals, families and foundations take a more intentional approach to their wealth or finances to better define, focus and realize their goals.

Our Asset and Wealth Management division is driven by innovators like you who are driven to create technology solutions that make us work more efficiently and help our businesses grow. It’s our mission to efficiently take care of our clients’ wealth, helping them get, and remain properly invested. Our team of agile technologists thrive in a cloud-native environment that values continuous learning using a data-centric approach in developing innovative technology solutions.