Lead Software Engineer - Data Engineering & Applied AI

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Plano, TX seeks a Data Engineering & Applied AI Lead Software Engineer to advance AI-enabled data management platforms and secure, scalable software products.

You will own end-to-end development, mentor engineers, and drive enterprise-grade automation and governance within a fast-paced agile environment. The role emphasizes responsible AI use, data architecture expertise, and leadership in adopting enterprise AI tooling to improve quality, speed, and security across

Qualifications

• 5+ years applied software engineering experience.
• Experience leading AI-assisted development adoption.
• Strong responsible AI practices and secure handling.
• Knowledge of data architecture and modeling patterns.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver AI-enabled platform capabilities for data management.
• Lead adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices.
• Develop agentic production data platform with full stack ownership.
• Implement secure coding standards and automated testing.
• Operate data pipelines and platform services for metadata and lineage.
• Establish production-grade operations and SRE controls.

Skills

AI-enabled development

Code review

Secure coding

Data architecture

Mentoring

SRE practices

Automation tooling

Production code

Education

Software Engineering degree

Tools

Claude Code

CI/CD

AI-assisted development tools

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, youare 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