Principal Software Engineer (Risk Technology Data Strategy)
If you are looking for a game-changing career, working for one of the world's leading financial institutions, you've come to the right place.
As a Principal Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Corporate Risk Technology team, you, you provide expertise and engineering excellence as an integral part of an agile team to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Leverage your advanced technical capabilities and collaborate with colleagues across the organization to drive best-in-class outcomes across various technologies to support one or more of the firm's portfolios.
You will help build a state‑of‑the‑art data platform that delivers trusted, timely, and well‑governed risk data at scale across the firm. You will shape the foundation for advanced analytics and future AI/ML capabilities by driving strong data modeling, quality, lineage, interoperability, and secure, resilient services.
Job responsibilities
- Owns product strategy and roadmap and maintains effective communication with stakeholders
- Contributes to the development of technical methods in specialized fields in line with the latest product development methodologies
- Creates complex and scalable coding frameworks using appropriate software design frameworks
- Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- Advises cross-functional teams on technological matters within your domain of expertise
- Serves as the function's go-to subject matter expert
- Creates durable, reusable software frameworks that are leveraged across teams and functions
- Influences leaders and senior stakeholders across business, product, and technology teams
- Champions the firm's culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
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Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and expert applied experience
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Strong technical fluency: able to evaluate designs, facilitate architecture reviews, and translate engineering constraints into clear product decisions
- Practical proficiency in at least one programming language - Python or Java
- Experience applying expertise and new methods to determine solutions for complex technology problems in one or more technical disciplines
- Experience leading a product as a Product Owner or Product Manager
- Ability to present and effectively communicate with Senior Leaders and Executives
- Understanding of the business
- Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Domain fluency in risk and finance
- Cloud platform familiarity (AWS/Databricks)
- Experience with enterprise data platforms, such as data lake, warehouse, and lakehouse
- Knowledge of data governance, quality, and lineage tooling and practices (DQ frameworks, metadata catalogs, lineage capture)
ABOUT US
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.
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.
ABOUT THE TEAM
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.
Perks and Benefits
Health and Wellness
Parental Benefits
Work Flexibility
Office Life and Perks
Vacation and Time Off
Financial and Retirement
Professional Development
Diversity and Inclusion