Lead Data Engineer

Job Description
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.
As a Lead Data Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer & Community Banking Data Lake Team, 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. As a core technical contributor, you are 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

• Generates data models for their team using firm wide tooling, linear algebra, statistics, and geometrical algorithms
• Delivers data collection, storage, access, and analytics data platform solutions in a secure, stable, and scalable way
• Implements database back-up, recovery, and archiving strategy
• Evaluates and reports on access control processes to determine effectiveness of data asset security with minimal supervision
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Working experience with both relational and NoSQL databases
• Experience and proficiency across the data lifecycle
• Experience with database back-up, recovery, and archiving strategy
• Proficient knowledge of linear algebra, statistics, and geometrical algorithms
• Hands on experience building software applications with Java
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Demonstrated AWS cloud expertise and hands-on AWS full stack(Java) software engineering experience
• Hands on experience with streaming applications. Apache Kafka (MSK), AWS Kinesis Data Firehouse
• Hands-on experience working with big data applications such as Spark
• Hands-on experience working with containerized technologies(EKS, ECS) and solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Familiarity with Terraform is a plus
• Exposure to cloud data platforms like Databricks, Snowflake a big plus

About Us
JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.
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 Consumer & Community Banking division serves our Chase customers through a range of financial services, including personal banking, credit cards, mortgages, auto financing, investment advice, small business loans and payment processing. We're proud to lead the U.S. in credit card sales and deposit growth and have the most-used digital solutions - all while ranking first in customer satisfaction.