Lead Software Engineer

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer and Community Banking - J.P. Morgan Wealth Management organization, you are an integral part of an agile team that designs, enhances, builds, and delivers trusted, market‑leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner.

Job responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Design and implement end-to-end ETL/ELT pipelines on AWS using AWS Glue (PySpark) and/or EMR/EMR Serverless.

• Build and maintain data lakes/lakehouses on Amazon S3 using columnar formats (Parquet/ORC) with effective partitioning, compaction, and schema evolution via Glue Data Catalog.

• Optimize Spark jobs using best practices (predicate pushdown, broadcast joins, AQE, file sizing, caching) and monitor performance with CloudWatch and Spark UI.
• Implement data quality checks and observability , SLAs/SLOs, and lineage/metadata practices & y, scalability, and cost produce clear documentation and runbooks & Orchestrate workflows with AWS Step Functions and/or Airflow (MWAA), including error handling, retries, and idempotency.
• Enforce security and compliance: IAM least-privilege, KMS encryption, VPC endpoints/private networking, Secrets Manager/Parameter Store, Lake Formation access controls.

• Collaborate on data modeling (dimensional/star, data vault, wide tables) and interface contracts for analytics, ML features, and downstream services.

• Participate in architectural reviews, propose improvements for reliability, scalability, and cost produce clear documentation and runbooks & Drive CI/CD for data code , infrastructure as code (Terraform or AWS CDK), and automated deployments.