About the position
As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank Markets Data Lake Platform Engineering 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. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications. In this team, you will work with quantitative researchers and other technology teams to accelerate the adoption of cloud-based data lake technologies. This includes leading the architecture, design, and integration efforts between the Markets Data Lake and the JPMC Athena platforms plus driving architecture functions for the Markets Data Lake team. Our work is focused on business use-cases and collaboration across multiple teams and lines of businesses. The ideal candidate will be adept at driving innovation and standards across a globally dispersed and fast paced organization.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and deliver high-performing applications and frameworks that support the Markets Data Lake Platform and Markets Data Strategy.
- Drives innovation, collaboration, and engineering standards across the globally distributed team.
- Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors.
- Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others.
- Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes.
- Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus.
- Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle.
- Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies.
Requirements
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
- Prior experience with Sell-Side analytics platforms (Athena, SecDB, Quartz, etc.) is a must.
- Advance experience with over eight plus years in software design and architecture, with a focus on Python development.
- Design and implement software applications and APIs to enhance the Markets Data Lake platform.
- Develop microservices and real-time services using technologies such as Kafka streaming.
- Experience with big data technologies and AWS Cloud Platform.
- Experience with AWS Lake Formation and database technologies including both relational and NoSQL.
- Architect scalable and efficient solutions that align with the firm's federated data lake pattern.
- Strong systems engineering and software development skills.
- Experience building high performance, highly available and scalable systems.
- Excellent problem solving, root cause analysis and debugging skills.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience developing APIs and foundational components.
- Strong SDLC mindset and familiarity with agile paradigms.
- Experience within DevOps, Infrastructure design and transformation roles.
- Experience with scripting and compiled languages, such as Bash, Python and C++.
- Comfortable working across different platforms and languages.
