Lead Software Engineer - Data Engineering & Applied AI

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Plano, TX +1 · Asset & Wealth Management

Lead Software Engineer focused on Data Engineering and Applied AI, responsible for designing and developing AI-enabled platform capabilities and an agentic production data platform. The role emphasizes driving team adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices, building autonomous applications using AI agents, and ensuring responsible AI use within engineering workflows.

What you'd actually do

  1. Designing, developing, and delivering AI-enabled platform capabilities that power next-generation data management products (Data Quality, Metadata Management, Lineage, Data Retention and Destruction)
  2. Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.
  3. Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.
  4. Hands on design and development of agentic production data platform with full stack application ownership.
  5. AI first mindset in developing code using Claude Code, building agents to make application/platform autonomous.

Skills

Required

  • Formal training or certification in Software Engineering and 5+ years applied experience
  • Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
  • Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices
  • Strong knowledge of data architecture and modeling patterns, including dimensional modeling and database design (normalization/denormalization).
  • Use enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development tools (coding, testing, troubleshooting, documentation) with rigorous validation of outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
  • Apply and coach responsible AI practices, including data sensitivity, secure input/output handling, and resiliency/security standards.
  • Own end-to-end delivery of data management products: operate/maintain/modernize existing applications and build greenfield capabilities across UI, APIs, services, integrations, and data pipelines in a federated model.
  • Design and deliver platform services for metadata, lineage, data contracts, data quality, and retention/destruction via well-defined interfaces and workflows.
  • Evaluate open-source solutions through rapid POCs with success criteria; lead selection, customization, and enterprise hardening for reliability, security, and operational support.
  • Build workflow orchestration and policy enforcement services, plus scalable batch/streaming integrations (schema evolution, backfills, error handling, contract-driven interoperability).
  • Establish production-grade operations and controls (SRE practices, monitoring/on-call, incident response/RCA, auditability, least-privilege, disciplined change management) and deliver governed agentic capabilities (safe tool/function calling, autonomy tiers, access-controlled RAG, evaluation/monitoring, audit trails, rollback/fallback) while leading through influence, design reviews, and mentoring.

Nice to have

  • Preferred financial services or Wealth Management experience, data governance or data management domain expertise, and experience evaluating and enterprise-hardening open-source software.
  • Frontend: React or Angular with TypeScript.
  • Backend: Python, Java, or Kotlin with REST or GraphQL.
  • Data Engineering/Platform: Spark, Kafka, Airflow, Snowflake, and AWS.
  • Platform engineering: containers, CI/CD, observability, and controlled release practices.
  • Applied AI with LLMs: Claude Code, Agent, Skills, RAG, embeddings, prompt or configuration management, evaluation and guardrails, and agent tool or function calling
  • Bachelor’s degree required. Advance

What the JD emphasized

  • Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools
  • Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows
  • Use enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development tools (coding, testing, troubleshooting, documentation) with rigorous validation of outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
  • Apply and coach responsible AI practices, including data sensitivity, secure input/output handling, and resiliency/security standards.

Other signals

  • AI-assisted engineering practices
  • agentic production data platform
  • AI first mindset
  • develop AI skills, agents