VP Lead Software Engineer: Cloud & Databricks for Valuation

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Jersey City invites a Lead Software Engineer (VP) to join the Valuation Control Group Technology team.

You will be a core technical contributor, shaping architecture for Athena, Databricks, and AWS-based valuation platforms while delivering trusted, scalable software in a regulated environment. You will lead engineering teams, mentor engineers, and collaborate with risk, finance, quants, and business partners to define requirements, drive Agile delivery, and implement

Qualifications

• 5+ years of applied software engineering experience.
• Extensive Python engineering with finance domain exposure.
• Strong Databricks / Apache Spark (PySpark, Delta Lake) experience.
• Hands-on AWS across S3, EC2, Lambda, IAM; cloud security awareness.
• Solid knowledge of financial products, valuation concepts and market data.
• Experience leading engineering teams in regulated environments.
• Strong SQL, data modeling, and data-quality engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end architecture for Athena (Python), Databricks (PySpark/Delta Lake), and AWS-based valuation control platforms.
• Develop and enhance pricing, risk, IPV, valuation adjustment, and fair value reporting tools within Athena.
• Design, build, and optimize large-scale Databricks ETL and analytics pipelines for pricing, market, and P&L data.
• Architect and manage cloud-native AWS solutions, including infrastructure, security, automation, and modernization initiatives.
• Establish engineering best practices, code quality standards, CI/CD processes, testing frameworks, and production monitoring.
• Deliver automation and controls for independent price verification, valuation uncertainty detection, reconciliations, and regulatory compliance.
• Collaborate with valuation control, risk, finance, quants, and business stakeholders to define requirements and drive Agile delivery.
• Provide technical leadership, mentor engineering teams, oversee production support, and ensure scalable, auditable, and resilient solutions.
• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain to improve the value realized by automation.

Skills

Python

Databricks / Apache Spark

AWS

SQL

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Data modeling

Financial domain knowledge

Education

Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

CI/CD tooling

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Jersey City invites a Lead Software Engineer (VP) to join the Valuation Control Group Technology team.

You will be a core technical contributor, shaping architecture for Athena, Databricks, and AWS-based valuation platforms while delivering trusted, scalable software in a regulated environment. You will lead engineering teams, mentor engineers, and collaborate with risk, finance, quants, and business partners to define requirements, drive Agile delivery, and implement