Senior Data Platform Engineer — Payments & Analytics

Testing Site - JPMC; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase in Austin, TX seeks a Lead Software Engineer - Data and Payments Data Platform to drive scalable, secure data solutions across the firm. You will lead design and development of data pipelines, governance layers, and production-grade components with cross-functional teams.

You will mentor engineers, advance CI/CD practices, and evaluate new technologies like Spark, Flink, Airflow, and Databricks to deliver reliable analytics and payment data platforms for business stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of applied software engineering experience.
• 3+ years in data engineering or data platform development.
• Experience with distributed data processing frameworks like Spark and Flink.
• Proficiency in building scalable data pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows.
• Experience with Databricks and Airflow.
• Cloud data services experience (AWS).
• Strong SDLC and agile practices.

Responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting.
• Designs, builds, and maintains scalable data pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows for batch and real-time processing using Spark, Airflow, Kafka, and Flink.
• Develops data platform components including data cataloging, data quality frameworks, and semantic/metrics layers with governance, lineage, and compliance standards.
• Implements data modeling strategies (fact and dimensional) to support analytics, reporting, and downstream consumption.
• Partners with analytics teams, product managers, and business stakeholders to translate data requirements into production-grade solutions.
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others.
• Identifies opportunities to automate remediation of recurring issues to improve operational stability.
• Leads evaluation sessions with vendors and teams to drive architecture assessments.
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering for new technologies.
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.

Skills

Python

Java

SQL

CI/CD

Agile methodologies

Education

Formal software engineering training

Tools

Apache Spark

Apache Flink

Apache Airflow

Databricks

AWS S3

Glue

Redshift

Athena

EMR

Job description

JPMorgan Chase in Austin, TX seeks a Lead Software Engineer - Data and Payments Data Platform to drive scalable, secure data solutions across the firm. You will lead design and development of data pipelines, governance layers, and production-grade components with cross-functional teams.

You will mentor engineers, advance CI/CD practices, and evaluate new technologies like Spark, Flink, Airflow, and Databricks to deliver reliable analytics and payment data platforms for business stakeholders.