Senior Software Engineering Manager — Real-Time Data Platform

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Senior Manager of Software Engineering within the Corporate Sector's Reference Data Engineering team. You will mentor multiple teams, drive AI-assisted development, and oversee end-to-end feature ownership for real-time data products in a modern data mesh architecture across AWS, Databricks, and on-premises.

The role requires expert Java/Spring Boot skills, strong distributed-systems knowledge, and proven leadership to scale enterprise practices, improve delivery

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering with leadership experience.
• Experience leading multi-team AI-assisted development and governance.
• Strong knowledge of responsible AI use in engineering workflows.
• Hands-on experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Expert-level Java proficiency with Spring, AWS, and cloud-native apps.

Responsibilities

• Provide direction and coaching for a team of entry-level to mid-level software engineers that work on basic to moderately complex tasks.
• Sets and scales operating practices for enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering and SDLC/TLM automation across multiple teams to improve delivery speed, quality, and operational outcomes; establishes measurable expectations (e.g., throughput, defect reduction, reliability) and ensures consistent validation, security, resiliency, and reuse of proven patterns.
• 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.
• Executes creative software solutions through innovative system design and development. Approaches complex data infrastructure challenges with ability to think beyond conventional approaches to identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve operational stability of reference data systems
• Develops secure, high-quality production code. Reviews and debugs code written by others. Maintains and elevates engineering standards
• Designs and develops Java/Spring Boot microservices for real-time data product delivery and platform capabilities
• Owns assigned features end-to-end: requirements, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring
• Optimizes performance, scalability, and cost efficiency of microservices and data pipelines while writing comprehensive tests (unit, integration, end-to-end) to ensure platform reliability and data integrity
• Participates in design and code reviews. Proactively identifies and remediates technical debt
• Contributes to production support and incident response.
• Contributes to team knowledge sharing: documentation, runbooks, tech talks

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

AWS

Microservices

Leadership

SDLC

Kubernetes

Kafka

Security

Data engineering

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Databricks

Snowflake

Kafka

Jira

Maven

Job description

JPMorganChase is seeking a Senior Manager of Software Engineering within the Corporate Sector's Reference Data Engineering team. You will mentor multiple teams, drive AI-assisted development, and oversee end-to-end feature ownership for real-time data products in a modern data mesh architecture across AWS, Databricks, and on-premises.

The role requires expert Java/Spring Boot skills, strong distributed-systems knowledge, and proven leadership to scale enterprise practices, improve delivery