Senior Lead Software Engineer

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Senior Lead Software Engineer in USA

JPMorgan Chase
Full time
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USA
09/10/2026
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Columbus, OH

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end delivery of secure, scalable, resilient, and performant software and data pipelines.
Drive architecture, product design, technical decisions, and operational processes across multiple teams.
Develop high-quality code and conduct rigorous reviews focused on maintainability, security, and engineering excellence.
Establish governance and validation standards for responsible AI-assisted engineering practices.
Partner with product, data, risk, and operations stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions.
Design analytics-ready data assets, including curated datasets, semantic layers, and metric definitions.
Optimize distributed processing and data modeling to improve throughput, cost efficiency, and reliability.
Strengthen observability and data quality through monitoring, alerting, lineage, and measurable service-level outcomes.
Mentor and coach engineers while raising expectations for engineering rigor and delivery discipline.

Requirements

Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
Experience leading the design and delivery of complex cloud-native software or data engineering solutions in production.
Strong knowledge of data structures, performance tuning, distributed processing, and data modeling patterns.
Experience building and maintaining analytics-ready data products with quality, consistency, and governance.
Experience with automated testing and continuous integration and delivery practices.
Experience guiding teams on safe and compliant use of AI-assisted development tools and validating AI outputs.
Understanding of secure engineering, data sensitivity handling, and resiliency expectations in enterprise environments.
Ability to independently solve ambiguous technical problems and influence outcomes through technical leadership.
Preferred experience with AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform; Docker; Kubernetes; Apache Spark; Databricks; Kafka; Airflow; dbt; Delta Lake; Apache Iceberg; Apache Hudi; SQL performance tuning; Terraform; monitoring; alerting; and reliability engineering.

Benefits

Competitive total rewards package with base salary determined by role, experience, skill set, and location, plus potential commission or discretionary incentive compensation for eligible roles.
Comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, and financial coaching.
Additional compensation and benefits details are provided during the hiring process.

Salary: $176k - $260k/yr

JPMorgan Chase

With a history tracing its roots to 1799 in New York City, JPMorganChase is one of the world's oldest, largest, and best-known financial institutions—carrying forth the innovative spirit of our heritage firms in global operations across 100 markets. We serve millions of customers and many of the ...

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