Senior Lead Data Platform Architect & Engineer

Socket.dev; New Jersey; On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Employee benefits

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer for the Corporate Technology data platform. You will architect, build, and operate data products at scale, providing technical leadership across teams and ensuring secure, reliable delivery.

This role emphasizes end-to-end delivery, standards for resiliency, and strong collaboration with security, risk, and controls. You will mentor engineers, drive SLOs, and shape platform strategy in a complex enterprise environment.

Qualifications

• Significant experience delivering large-scale data platforms.
• Strong distributed systems and platform engineering expertise.
• Proven ability to lead through influence across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the technical strategy and roadmap for data platform capabilities including ingestion, transformation, orchestration, metadata, lineage, and data quality.
• Design and implement scalable platform services and reusable frameworks that standardize data onboarding, curation, and consumption.
• Lead end-to-end delivery for complex initiatives or major workstreams from discovery and architecture through build, rollout, and production readiness.
• Establish and apply engineering standards for resiliency, performance, observability, capacity management, and cost efficiency within your platform area.
• Lead and/or participate in design reviews and contribute reference architectures, patterns, and guardrails used by partner engineering teams.
• Build and maintain automation for CI/CD, infrastructure as code, policy as code, and repeatable onboarding to reduce operational toil.
• Drive operational excellence through SLOs, monitoring, incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement for services you own.
• Partner with security, risk, and controls stakeholders to ensure platform solutions meet regulatory, audit, and data governance requirements.
• Communicate trade-offs, risks, and progress to stakeholders using clear narratives, metrics, and outcomes.
• Mentor and raise the bar for engineering practices through hands‑on leadership, code reviews, and technical community engagement.

Skills

Distributed systems

Platform engineering

Data governance

API design

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD

AWS

Job description

JPMorgan Chase is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer for the Corporate Technology data platform. You will architect, build, and operate data products at scale, providing technical leadership across teams and ensuring secure, reliable delivery.

This role emphasizes end-to-end delivery, standards for resiliency, and strong collaboration with security, risk, and controls. You will mentor engineers, drive SLOs, and shape platform strategy in a complex enterprise environment.