Senior Lead Software Engineer – Markets Data & AI

Next Frontier Capital; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in the United States (New Jersey) seeks a Senior Lead Software Engineer to guide architecture and development across the Markets Data Strategies platform.

You will collaborate with quantitative researchers and other tech teams to accelerate cloud-based data and AI adoption. The role focuses on building scalable, secure, and high-performance systems while shaping engineering standards across a globally distributed team.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
• Prior experience with Sell-Side analytics platforms (JPMC Athena, SecDB, Quartz, etc.) is a must.
• Advanced experience in software design and architecture, with a focus on Python development.
• Design and implement software applications and APIs to enhance the Markets Data Lake platform.
• Develop microservices and real-time services using technologies such as Kafka streaming.
• Experience with big data technologies and AWS Cloud Platform.
• Experience with AWS Lake Formation and database technologies, including both relational and NoSQL.
• Architect scalable and efficient solutions that align with the firm's federated data lake pattern.
• Strong systems engineering and software development skills.
• Experience building high-performance, highly available, and scalable systems.
• Excellent problem-solving, root cause analysis, and debugging skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deliver high-performing applications and frameworks that support the Markets Data Lake Platform and Markets Data and AI Strategy.
• Drive innovation, collaboration, and engineering standards across the globally distributed team.
• Regularly provide technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors.
• Develop secure and high-quality production code, and review and debug code written by others.
• Drive decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes.
• Serve as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus.
• Actively contribute to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Influence peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies.

Skills

Python development

Software architecture

Kafka streaming

AWS Cloud

APIs and microservices

Big data technologies

Sell-Side analytics platforms

SDLC & Agile

Engineering leadership

Problem solving

Education

B.S. in Computer Science

Tools

JPMC Athena

SecDB

Quartz

AWS Lake Formation

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in the United States (New Jersey) seeks a Senior Lead Software Engineer to guide architecture and development across the Markets Data Strategies platform.

You will collaborate with quantitative researchers and other tech teams to accelerate cloud-based data and AI adoption. The role focuses on building scalable, secure, and high-performance systems while shaping engineering standards across a globally distributed team.