Sr Lead Software Engineer - Data Platform

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

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer for the Corporate Technology data platform, you will be a senior individual contributor responsible for architecting, building, and operating data platform capabilities that enable secure, scalable, and reliable data products. You will provide technical leadership, drive engineering excellence, and partner across technology, product, controls, and business teams to deliver measurable outcomes across JPMorganChase.

Job Responsibilities

• Contribute to the technical strategy and roadmap for key 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.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Significant experience delivering large‑scale software platforms or data platforms in complex enterprise environments.
• Strong distributed systems and platform engineering expertise including reliability, scalability, fault tolerance, and service design.
• Hands‑on experience with data platform domains such as batch and streaming ingestion, orchestration, data processing, and data serving patterns.
• Proven ability to build production‑grade systems with robust testing, deployment automation, monitoring, and operational controls.
• Strong knowledge of data governance and control concepts including access management, encryption, retention, auditability, and privacy.
• Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages and strong API and systems design skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence as a senior individual contributor across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to varied audiences.
• Proven track record of being a highly motivated self‑starter.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Experience building self‑service platform products and improving developer experience through portals, templates, and golden paths.
• Experience operating platforms in cloud and containerized environments with infrastructure automation.
• Experience implementing metadata‑driven architectures and standardized data product patterns.
• Experience building controls for sensitive data including data classification, policy enforcement, and privacy‑by‑design.
• Experience in financial services or other highly regulated industries.

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission‑based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on‑site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans

Our Corporate Technology team relies on smart, driven people like you to develop applications and provide tech support for all our corporate functions across our network. Your efforts will touch lives all over the financial spectrum and across all our divisions: Global Finance, Corporate Treasury, Risk Management, Human Resources, Compliance, Legal, and within the Corporate Administrative Office. You’ll be part of a team specifically built to meet and exceed our evolving technology needs, as well as our technology controls agenda.