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Lead Software Engineer

jersey city, nj • Posted 4 days ago
Onsite Contract IT & Technology

Join us as we embark on a journey of collaboration and innovation, where your unique skills and talents will be valued and celebrated. Together we will create a brighter future and make a meaningful difference.

Job Description

As a Lead Data Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Corporate Technology, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver data collection, storage, access, and analytics solutions in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You are a core technical contributor responsible for maintaining critical data pipelines and architectures across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

Job Responsibilities

  • 7+ years in data engineering, including 2+ years leading delivery/architecture for multi-team data platforms.
  • Hands‑on experience building and operating a Databricks Lakehouse hosted in AWS.
  • Deep experience with Delta Lake (ACID tables, partitioning, schema evolution, ...)
  • Proven experience with Spark on Databricks (performance tuning, cluster sizing, skew mitigation, joins, caching, file sizing).
  • Experience with streaming and batch pipelines (Structured Streaming; incremental processing; backfills; late‑arriving data).
  • Strong AWS fundamentals for data platforms: S3, IAM, KMS, networking basics (VPC/security groups), logging/auditing.
  • Experience implementing data governance/security controls in Databricks (e.g., Unity Catalog, table/column permissions, credential passthrough patterns as applicable).
  • Demonstrated ownership of reliability: monitoring/alerting, incident response, RCA, and SLO/SLA management.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

  • Architect the lake house: design bronze/silver/gold (or equivalent) layers, domain data products.
  • Deliver ingestion at scale: implement resilient ingestion from AWS sources into Databricks (batch + streaming), including CDC where needed.
  • Build maintainable pipelines: use Delta Live Tables (DLT) and/or standard Jobs with clear modular structure, testing, and documentation.
  • Operational excellence: productionize workloads via Databricks Workflows/Jobs, robust retries, checkpointing, idempotency, and safe re‑runs.
  • Governance by design: enforce least privilege, data classification (PII), auditing, lineage/metadata, and controlled sharing/consumption.
  • Performance & cost management: tune Spark/Delta workloads, right‑size clusters, optimize storage layout, and manage job/warehouse spend.
  • Lead and mentor: set engineering standards, run design reviews, drive code quality, and upskill engineers in Spark/Databricks best practices.
  • Cross‑functional delivery: translate stakeholder needs into technical plans, communicate tradeoffs, and align with security/platform teams.
  • CI/CD and IaC: Terraform for Databricks + AWS resources; promotion across environments. Testing: unit/integration tests for transformations, data quality checks, contract testing, and replay/backfill procedures.
  • Version control & code review discipline; clear documentation and runbooks.

Benefits

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Eligible roles may receive commission‑based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, such as comprehensive health care coverage, on‑site wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion. 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 needs.

About The Team

Our professionals in Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are essential to our business, ensuring that our clients, customers and employees are set up for success.

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