Director of Software Engineer

Join our innovative team and shape the future of software development.

As a Director of Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase, you provide expertise and data engineering excellence as an integral part of an agile team to enhance, build and deliver data collection, storage, access, and analytic solutions in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You leverage your advanced technical capabilities and collaborate with colleagues across the organization to drive best-in-class outcomes across various data pipelines and data architectures to support one or more of the firm's portfolios.

Job Responsibilities

• Architects public cloud data platform solutions & well versed with latest technologies including AI.
• Designs and builds end-to-end data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and distribution, supporting both batch and streaming workloads
• Develops and owns data products that are reusable, well-documented, and optimized for analytics, BI, and AI/ML consumers. Implements and manages modern data lake and lakehouse architectures, including Apache Iceberg table formats
• Implements interoperability across data platforms and tools, including Databricks, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, AWS Glue, and Lake Formation
• Establishes and maintains end-to-end data lineage to support observability, impact analysis, and regulatory requirements
• Defines and enforces data quality standards, implementing automated validation and monitoring using frameworks such as Great Expectations
• Partners with governance, risk, and compliance teams to ensure adherence to firmwide data governance, retention, and regulatory policies
• Optimizes data platforms for performance, scalability, cost efficiency, and reliability. Collaborates closely with product managers, analytics teams, and platform engineers to align data solutions with business needs
• Provides technical leadership through architecture reviews, code reviews, and design guidance across teams
• Acts on previously identified opportunities to converge physical, IT, and data security architecture to manage access. Assists in analyzing critical trends and insights from visualizations and evaluates and selects data visualization tools across firm

• Formal training or certification on large scale technology program concepts and 10+ years applied experience. In addition, 5+ years of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise
• Able to write maintainable & testable code in Python/Java that is consistent with cloud related architecture principles.
• Able to build Cloud Native applications from a domain driven design and micro-services architecture perspective supporting multiple API versions.
• Hands-on experience building and operating batch and streaming data pipelines at scale.
• Experience with Apache Iceberg and modern table formats in lakehouse environment
• Strong proficiency with Snowflake, and all AWS data services such as Glue and Lake Formation.
• Experience implementing data lineage, data quality, and data observability frameworks. Proven experience with data governance and entitlement platforms.
• Strong understanding of secure data access patterns in large, regulated environments
• Ability to influence data architecture standards and best practices across multiple teams. Ability to present and effectively communicate with Senior Leaders and Executives
• Experience applying expertise and new methods to determine solutions for complex technology problems in one or more technical disciplines.
• Shows a proficient understanding of existing data management systems and continuous learning to understand new data management systems.