Senior Lead Software Engineer - Python, PySpark, Big Data, Data pipeline, ML/AI

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Plano, TX, seeks a Senior Lead Software Engineer to drive design, development, and delivery of trusted technology products within the Consumer and Community Banking - Risk Technology Portfolio.

You will lead agile teams, apply AI-assisted engineering practices, and ensure security and reliability across data-intensive systems. The role requires hands-on software engineering, cloud and big data tooling experience, and strong leadership.

Qualifications

• Formal training and certification on software engineering concepts with 5+ years' experience.
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Responsibilities

• Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or breakdown technical problems
• Drives adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices across teams to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test acceleration, release readiness, incident/root-cause analysis), while establishing measurable validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of proven patterns and automation within the SDLC/TLM toolchain.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to drive efficiency and support capacity unlock initiatives across teams, prioritizing reuse of existing firm technology assets.
• Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems
• Drive the AI / ML delivery best practices along with software engineering best practices.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.
• Define architecture for series of complex deliverables.
• Gathers, analyzes, synthesizes, and develops visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems
• Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture

Skills

Software design

Leadership

CI/CD

Security

Python

SQL

Machine Learning

Spark

AWS

Databricks

AI-assisted development

Tools

Apache Spark

Databricks

AWS EMR

EC2

S3

CloudWatch

Job description

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer and Community Banking - Risk Technology Portfolio team, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

Job responsibilities:

• Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or breakdown technical problems
• Drives adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices across teams to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test acceleration, release readiness, incident/root-cause analysis), while establishing measurable validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of proven patterns and automation within the SDLC/TLM toolchain.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to drive efficiency and support capacity unlock initiatives across teams, prioritizing reuse of existing firm technology assets.
• Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems
• Drive the AI / ML delivery best practices along with software engineering best practices.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.
• Define architecture for series of complex deliverables.
• Gathers, analyzes, synthesizes, and develops visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems
• Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Formal training and certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience. In addition, 2+ years of experience leading technologists to manage and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
• Hands-on experience using enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools within the work environment (e.g., for coding, test creation, troubleshooting, or documentation) with demonstrated ability to critically evaluate, validate, and refine AI-generated outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Good knowledge of Machine Learning modelling as an engineer
• Experience in working with one or more programming language(s) and framework(s) (i.e., Python, PySpark, Big Data, Data pipeline, Machine Learning, etc.)
• Strong SQL skills with ability to validate features and data quality at scale
• Experience configuring and optimizing Spark clusters for processing large data.
• Hands-on experience working with AWS services including EMR, EC2, S3, and CloudWatch
• Working knowledge on Databricks in creating Data Pipelines, Machine learning models deployment.

Preferred qualifications, skills, and capabilities:

• Expertise with programming languages like Java, python
• Experience in Cloud Technologies (i.e., AWS - Databricks preferred)
• Experience with serving high volume, High availability & ultra low latency API solutions with Java - Spring Boot applications
• Awareness with Python Machine Learning libraries and ecosystems (i.e., Pandas, Numpy, etc.)
• AWS certifications (e.g. Solutions Architect Associate)
• Exposure to workflow orchestration tools (e.g. Apache Airflow)
• Familiarity with modern LLM techniques