Lead Software Engineer — Java, Spark, Kubernetes, AWS, Databricks
J.P. Morgan
Are you ready to make a lasting impact by building and scaling mission-critical systems? At JPMorganChase, you will lead by example, shaping the future of data platforms and services. You’ll join a collaborative team that values innovation, technical excellence, and continuous learning. Your expertise will help us deliver resilient, high-performance solutions that power our business. Discover opportunities for growth and advancement as you drive best practices and mentor talented engineers.
Job Summary:
As a Vice President, Lead Software Engineer in our platform engineering team, you will architect, build, and scale data-intensive platforms and services. You will own the design and delivery of high-throughput, low-latency applications, mentor engineers, and drive best practices across cloud-native, batch, and streaming workloads. You will partner with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into secure, reusable APIs and services, ensuring compliance and operational excellence. Your leadership will help shape our technical direction and foster a culture of innovation.
Job Responsibilities:
- Lead architecture and end-to-end delivery of high-throughput, low-latency applications and data pipelines
- Design and implement resilient, observable, and cost-efficient microservices and data processing frameworks
- Build scalable Spark jobs on Databricks, optimize performance, and enforce coding standards
- Define and evolve platform engineering practices including CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and automated testing
- Drive Kubernetes-based runtime standards and enforce SRE/operability guardrails
- Partner with product, data, and platform teams to translate requirements into secure APIs, datasets, and services
- Mentor, coach, and conduct code/design reviews for engineers; set technical direction and uphold engineering excellence
- Champion cloud architecture on AWS, including networking, compute, storage, security, and cost governance
- Instrument systems with robust observability and implement runbooks, playbooks, and on-call readiness
- Ensure compliance with data governance, security standards, and regulatory requirements
- Enforce RBAC, encryption, and auditability across platforms
Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:
- Strong track record of delivering production systems in software engineering roles
- Expertise in Java (8+) with deep knowledge of concurrency, memory management, and performance tuning
- Advanced experience with Apache Spark and Databricks, including job optimization and Delta Lake patterns
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS or equivalent), deploying microservices, and service-to-service networking
- Proficiency in AWS services including IAM, VPC, EC2/EKS, S3, Lambda, Step Functions, and CloudWatch
- Experience with CI/CD tools, infrastructure-as-code, and containerization
- Solid data engineering fundamentals including partitioning, schema evolution, and data quality frameworks
- Practical knowledge of observability stacks, distributed tracing, and production troubleshooting
- Excellent communication and leadership skills
- Ability to influence architecture and guide teams through complex technical decisions
- Commitment to compliance and security standards
Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:
- Experience with Databricks Workflows/Jobs, Unity Catalog, and Delta Live Tables
- Familiarity with API design (REST/gRPC), messaging (Kafka/Kinesis), and streaming topologies
- Security-first mindset with experience in secrets management and compliance controls
- Background in financial services or other highly regulated environments
- Exposure to Python/Scala for Spark and SQL performance tuning
J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.
Lead, architect, and scale data-intensive platforms and services while mentoring engineers and driving technical excellence.
