Senior Lead Data Platform Architect & Engineer

JPMorganChase; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care coverage

Retirement savings plan

Backup childcare

Tuition reimbursement

Mental health support

Financial coaching

Equity compensation

Job summary

JPMorganChase in Jersey City seeks a Senior Lead Software Engineer for its Corporate Technology data platform. You will architect, build, and operate data platform capabilities enabling secure, scalable data products, and provide technical leadership across technology, product, controls, and business teams.

You will lead complex initiatives end-to-end, drive engineering excellence, oversee CI/CD and automation, and collaborate with security and governance stakeholders to meet regulatory

Qualifications

• Experience delivering large-scale software or data platforms in complex enterprise environments.
• Strong distributed systems, reliability, scalability and service design.
• Hands-on data platform domains: batch/streaming ingestion, orchestration, processing, serving patterns.
• Proven ability to build production-grade systems with testing, deployment automation, monitoring and controls.
• Knowledge of data governance: access management, encryption, retention, auditability, privacy.
• Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages and API design.
• Ability to lead as a senior IC across teams and stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the technical strategy and roadmap for data platform capabilities such as ingestion, transformation, orchestration, metadata and data quality.
• Design scalable platform services and reusable frameworks for data onboarding, curation and consumption.
• Lead end-to-end delivery from discovery through build, rollout and production readiness.
• Define engineering standards for resiliency, performance, observability, capacity and cost efficiency.
• Lead design reviews and contribute reference architectures and guardrails for partner teams.
• Automate CI/CD, infrastructure as code, policy as code and onboarding processes.
• Drive operational excellence with SLOs, monitoring, incident response and RCA.
• Partner with security, risk and controls to meet regulatory and data governance requirements.
• Communicate trade-offs, risks and progress with clear metrics and outcomes.
• Mentor engineering teams and raise the bar through code reviews and leadership.

Skills

Distributed systems

Data platforms

Batch and streaming ingestion

APIs and systems design

Leadership through influence

Communication skills

Self-motivation

Job description

JPMorganChase in Jersey City seeks a Senior Lead Software Engineer for its Corporate Technology data platform. You will architect, build, and operate data platform capabilities enabling secure, scalable data products, and provide technical leadership across technology, product, controls, and business teams.

You will lead complex initiatives end-to-end, drive engineering excellence, oversee CI/CD and automation, and collaborate with security and governance stakeholders to meet regulatory