Lead Software Engineer - Data Governance Engineer Lead

Socket.dev; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase Corporate Technology seeks a Lead Software Engineer to advance data governance and scalable tech solutions. You will be a core technical contributor for enterprise data standards, metadata, data catalogs, and end-to-end governance across multiple business functions.

You will lead AI-assisted engineering practices, ensure secure and reliable delivery, and collaborate with architecture, analytics and compliance teams to drive governance controls and high-quality software delivery.

Qualifications

• Expert in ETL/ELT data engineering and enterprise data standards.
• Experience leading AI-assisted software engineering tools with validation.
• Knowledge of responsible AI in engineering workflows and secure practices.
• Strong data architecture, modeling and dimensional patterns.
• Proficiency with Databricks, Snowflake, AWS S3, and Teradata.
• Familiarity with Erwin or PowerDesigner for data modeling.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain end-to-end data governance solutions.
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices to improve quality and speed.
• Apply SDLC toolchain knowledge to enhance automation value.
• Create and maintain enterprise data models and metadata artifacts.
• Maintain data catalogs and lineage tracking from source to consumption.
• Build governed ETL/ELT pipelines aligned to governance requirements.
• Implement data quality controls and remediation workflows.
• Collaborate with architecture, analytics and compliance teams.

Skills

Data governance fundamentals

AI-assisted development practices

Data architecture & modeling

Databricks & Delta Lake

Snowflake features

AWS S3 data lake

Teradata optimization

Erwin / PowerDesigner

Transactional & analytical modeling

Tools

Databricks SQL

Unity Catalog

Virtual data tooling

Job description

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

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Corporate Technology,you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, anddeliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, andscalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible forconducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas withinvarious business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

Job responsibilities

• Implement and maintain end-to-end data governance solutions thatoperationalize enterprise data standards, policies, and procedures.
• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineeringpractices within the work environment to improve code quality, deliveryspeed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring,test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), whileestablishing 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 Cycletoolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development andautomation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.
• Create and maintain enterprise data models (conceptual, logical, physical)that represent business processes and support analytics.
• Define, document, and maintain metadata standards, including business glossary and data dictionary artifacts to enable consistent dataunderstanding and usage.
• Implement and administer data cataloging capabilities and ensure data lineagetracking from source through transformations to consumption.
• Build and maintain governed ETL/ELT pipelines and patterns that align togovernance requirements.
• Implement technical data quality controls, including profiling, ruledefinition, monitoring, and issue remediation workflows.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders (architecture, analytics, compliance) to ensure governance controls are adopted and sustainable.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Expert proficiency in data engineering fundamentals: ETL/ELT development,data integration patterns, and distributed processing.
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assistedsoftware development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration,troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AIoutputs 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 coachingengineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices
• Strong knowledge of data architecture and modeling patterns, includingdimensional modeling and database design (normalization/denormalization).
• Advanced experience with Databricks, including Delta Lake, Unity Catalog,and Databricks SQL.
• Demonstrated experience with Snowflake, including virtual warehouseoptimization, data sharing, and platform security features.
• Proficiency with AWS, especially S3 for data lake implementations (bucketpolicies, lifecycle management, and service integrations).
• Strong working knowledge of Teradata, including query optimization, workloadmanagement, and migration approaches to modern cloud platforms.
• Expert-level data modeling skills (conceptual/logical/physical) usingindustry-standard methodologies.
• Experience with tools such as Erwin, PowerDesigner, or similar.
• Ability to design transactional and analytical models aligned to businessrequirements.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Advanced ability to profile data, identify quality issues, and implementquality rules and monitoring frameworks.
• Experience implementing data quality capabilities that address accuracy,completeness, consistency, and timeliness.

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovativefinancial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of theworld’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under theJ.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we area leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercialbanking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determinedbased on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible rolesmay receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation,paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition ofindividual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits andprograms to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits includecomprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, aretirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental healthsupport, financial coaching and more. Additional details about totalcompensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bringto our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equalopportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at ourcompany. 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 ordisability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also makereasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices andbeliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQsfor more information about requesting an accommodation.

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

Our Corporate Technology team relies on smart, driven people like you to developapplications and provide tech support for all our corporate functions across ournetwork. Your efforts will touch lives all over the financial spectrum andacross all our divisions: Global Finance, Corporate Treasury, Risk Management,Human Resources, Compliance, Legal, and within the Corporate AdministrativeOffice. You’ll be part of a team specifically built to meet and exceed ourevolving technology needs, as well as our technology controls agenda.