Senior Lead Data Platform & Agentic AI Engineer

JP Morgan Chase; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

JP Morgan Chase is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer within the Commercial & Investment Banking Payments Technology team to build a Data & AI Platform powering analytics and automation at scale. You’ll design and implement modern data pipelines and platform capabilities on a cutting-edge stack, backed by governance across catalog, lineage, and data quality.

You will lead an Agentic AI initiative to automate platform engineering, partnering with product and analytics teams to deliver

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
• Hands-on experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Demonstrated experience focused on software engineering or data platform development.
• Advanced in one or more programming languages: Python, Java and SQL.

Responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and troubleshooting.
• Designs, builds, and maintains scalable data pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows with Spark, Airflow, Kafka, and Flink.
• Develops data platform components including data cataloging, data quality frameworks, and governance.
• Implements data modeling strategies to support analytics, reporting, and downstream consumption.
• Partners with analytics teams, product managers, and stakeholders to translate data needs into solutions.
• Develops secure production code and reviews code written by others.
• Leads evaluation sessions with vendors and internal teams on architecture and applicability.
• Leads development of Agentic Autonomous Lakehouse capabilities for governed self-service provisioning.
• Leads communities of practice to promote new technologies and best practices.

Skills

Python

Java

SQL

Spark

Flink

Airflow

Kubernetes

Data modeling

CI/CD

Security

Agentic AI

LLMs

Education

Formal training or certification in software engineering

Tools

Databricks

Terraform

Docker

OpenMetadata

Iceberg

Unity Catalog

Tableau

dbt Metrics

Job description

JP Morgan Chase is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer within the Commercial & Investment Banking Payments Technology team to build a Data & AI Platform powering analytics and automation at scale. You’ll design and implement modern data pipelines and platform capabilities on a cutting-edge stack, backed by governance across catalog, lineage, and data quality.

You will lead an Agentic AI initiative to automate platform engineering, partnering with product and analytics teams to deliver