JPMorganChase
Lead Software Engineer - Data Governance / Data Modeling / Databricks / ETL/ELT/Teradata
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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Corporate Technology, 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:
- Implement and maintain end-to-end data governance solutions that operationalize enterprise data standards, policies, and procedures.
- 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.
- Create and maintain enterprise data models (conceptual, logical, physical) that represent business processes and support analytics.
- Define, document, and maintain metadata standards, including business glossary and data dictionary artifacts to enable consistent data understanding and usage.
- Implement and administer data cataloging capabilities and ensure data lineage tracking from source through transformations to consumption.
- Build and maintain governed ETL/ELT pipelines and patterns that align to governance requirements.
- Implement technical data quality controls, including profiling, rule definition, monitoring, and issue remediation workflows.
- Partner with cross-functional stakeholders (architecture, analytics, compliance) to ensure governance controls are adopted and sustainable.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Expert proficiency in data engineering fundamentals: ETL/ELT development, data integration patterns, and distributed processing.
- Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
- Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices
- Strong knowledge of data architecture and modeling patterns, including dimensional modeling and database design (normalization/denormalization).
- Advanced experience with Databricks, including Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, and Databricks SQL.
- Demonstrated experience with Snowflake, including virtual warehouse optimization, data sharing, and platform security features.
- Proficiency with AWS, especially S3 for data lake implementations (bucket policies, lifecycle management, and service integrations).
- Strong working knowledge of Teradata, including query optimization, workload management, and migration approaches to modern cloud platforms.
- Expert-level data modeling skills (conceptual/logical/physical) using industry-standard methodologies.
- Experience with tools such as Erwin, PowerDesigner, or similar.
- Ability to design transactional and analytical models aligned to business requirements.
- Advanced ability to profile data, identify quality issues, and implement quality rules and monitoring frameworks.
- Experience implementing data quality capabilities that address accuracy, completeness, consistency, and timeliness.
We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans
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