Lead Software Engineer - Data Platform

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As a Lead Software Engineer - Data Platform at JPMorgan Chase, within the Commercial & Investment Banking – Data Analytics – Payments Technology 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. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

Job responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or breakdown technical problems

• Design, build and manage enterprise applications at scale to ensure robust and fault tolerant data processing and ingestion using Spark, Kafka, and Flink

• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team

• 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.

• Design and build event-driven microservices workflows, using Kafka for inter-service communication and reliable asynchronous processing (at-least-once delivery, retries, and DLQ patterns).

• Partners with product managers and business stakeholders to translate requirements into production-grade solutions.

• Ensure production readiness through observability (metrics, logs, tracing), alerting, incident response runbooks, and proactive problem management.

• 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.