Platform Engineering Lead — Scalable, Secure Systems

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Kentucky; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in the Corporate Technology organization seeks a Lead Software Engineer to orchestrate design and delivery of scalable, secure applications powering core business capabilities.

You will partner with product managers, architects, and engineering teams to translate needs into well-architected solutions and to drive modern engineering practices across the full software development lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering with 5+ years of applied experience.
• Production-grade services ownership including reliability, operational readiness, and root-cause remediation.
• Experience with cloud platforms and containerized deployments (Kubernetes, automation).
• Proven track record leading cross-functional teams and delivering across the full SDLC.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end application development in partnership with site reliability engineering for delivery across the software development lifecycle (plan, design, build, test, release, and operate), ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and maintainable.
• Drive technical design and architecture for distributed application platforms, making sound trade-offs across performance, resiliency, cost, and delivery speed.
• Build and enhance software capabilities supporting analytics and data platforms, including SAS Viya (GKP), SAS Viya (AWS), and Databricks (AWS), with clear ownership of integration patterns, automation, and operational readiness.
• Develop and maintain platform and application services that enable onboarding, configuration, environment management, user migrations, and governed access for SAS Viya and Databricks workloads in both on prem and AWS platforms.
• Partner with product managers and stakeholders to refine requirements, define delivery roadmaps, and translate business outcomes into well-scoped epics, user stories, and technical deliverables.
• Establish and enforce engineering standards (coding standards, API contracts, testing strategy, documentation, security controls) and ensure consistent quality through peer review and automation.
• Lead modernization initiatives (refactoring, re-platforming, performance optimization) to reduce technical debt and improve developer productivity and system maintainability.

Skills

Leadership

CI/CD

Incident management

Mentorship

Automation

SDLC tooling

Security awareness

Performance tuning

Tools

Kubernetes

SAS Viya

Databricks

AWS

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in the Corporate Technology organization seeks a Lead Software Engineer to orchestrate design and delivery of scalable, secure applications powering core business capabilities.

You will partner with product managers, architects, and engineering teams to translate needs into well-architected solutions and to drive modern engineering practices across the full software development lifecycle.