Lead Software Engineer- Java/ AWS

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Jersey City, NJ, seeks a Lead Software Engineer within the Corporate Technology Office to lead a technical area and drive impact across teams, technologies, and projects.

You will leverage deep expertise in software engineering, data engineering, and product management to deliver complex initiatives. Responsibilities include designing and maintaining ETL data pipelines with Databricks, architecting data lake/warehouse solutions on AWS, and mentoring engineers while

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Experience with Java or Python for data engineering tasks
• Hands-on Databricks and AWS data services experience
• Experience with Apache Spark for large-scale data processing
• Experience with monitoring/observability tools (Dynatrace/Splunk/Grafana/Prometheus)
• Leadership experience mentoring engineers

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize ETL data pipelines using Databricks (Spark, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog)
• Architect data lake and data warehouse solutions on AWS (S3, Glue, SQS, SNS, Lambda, EMR)
• Lead and mentor a team of engineers with technical guidance and code reviews
• Promote observability, resiliency, and cost-efficient cloud architecture across platforms
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and tune pipelines and cloud resources for performance and reliability

Skills

Java

Python

Team leadership

Data engineering

Spark

Cloud architecture

Mentoring

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Formal training in software engineering

Tools

Databricks

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

SpringBoot

Dynatrace

Splunk

Grafana

Prometheus

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 Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Technology Office, you will lead a technical area and drive impact across teams, technologies, and projects spanning multiple departments. You will leverage your deep expertise in software engineering, applications, technical processes, and product management to deliver complex projects and initiatives.

Job responsibilities

• Design, build, maintain and optimize robust ETL data pipelines using Databricks (Spark, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog) and ensure efficient ingestion, transformation, and storage
• Collaborate with data product owner, business stakeholders, and ensure best practices in data engineering, software engineering and resilient cloud architecture
• Architect and implement data lake and data warehouse solutions leveraging AWS services (S3, Glue, SQS, SNS, Lambda, EMR, etc.)
• Collaborate with cross team to propose and build new solution for supporting overall application platform by the means of observability, orchestration, resiliency, developer experience, automation.
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Lead and mentor a team of engineers, providing technical guidance and code reviews
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and tune data pipelines and cloud resources for optimal performance, reliability, and cost efficiency
• Promote reusability across data pipelines and operational simplicity by introducing good observability standards

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• 5+ years of hands-on professional experience in one or more programming language(s), including Java or Python for data engineering tasks
• Hands-on experience with Databricks (Spark, Delta Lake, notebooks, job orchestration), AWS data services(EMR, Athena, Glue, S3)
• Hands-on experience utilizing Apache Spark for large-scale data processing, including developing and optimizing data pipelines, performing real-time and batch analytics, and leveraging Spark’s libraries for machine learning and data transformation to drive actionable business insights.
• Experience of leveraging AI tools for Developer productivity increase (SDD, Agentic AI, Skills, Copilot, Claude Code etc.)
• Experience with modern monitoring and logging tools (e.g. Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus).
• Proficiency in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle with familiarity on CI/CD, DevOps, and infrastructure-as-code tools in cloud environments
• Proven leadership experience in leading and mentoring varying levels of software engineers

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Application development experience in delivering complicated enterprise Investment Banking application for Market Surveillance, or Investment Banking Front-office Trading Systems or Analytics Systems in FX, Commodities, Equities and Equities Derivatives domains
• Familiarity with SpringBoot based microservices architecture and RESTful API development.
• Experience in Container technologies (i.e. Kubernetes and Docker)
• Experience in Kafka streaming
• Financial Products knowledge of Futures & Options, FX, Commodities, Equities and Equities Derivatives, as well as trade lifecycles and/or order workflow