Senior Manager of Software Engineering for Data Platform

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Jersey City, NJ +1 · Commercial & Investment Bank

Senior Manager of Software Engineering for Data Platform at JPMorgan Chase, leading a team to build a Business Observability Application. This platform uses an enterprise metrics store to deliver real-time monitoring, intelligent threshold management, alerting, and impact analysis for payments operations. The role involves technical coaching, team leadership, and driving the design and delivery of a high-throughput, low-latency observability platform using Java Spring Boot, Kafka, Flink, Databricks, ClickHouse, and ReactJS, with a focus on CI/CD, observability of the platform itself, and collaboration with domain experts.

What you'd actually do

  1. Provide overall direction, oversight, and coaching for a team of entry-level to mid-level software engineers that work on basic to moderately complex tasks
  2. Be accountable for decisions that influence teams' resources, budget, tactical operations, and the execution and implementation of processes and procedures
  3. Ensures successful collaboration across teams and stakeholders
  4. Identifies and mitigates issues to execute a book of work while escalating issues as necessary
  5. Provides input to leadership regarding budget, approach, and technical considerations to improve operational efficiencies and functionality for the team

Skills

Required

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts
  • Experience leading teams of technologists
  • Ability to guide and coach teams on approach to achieve goals aligned against a set of strategic initiatives
  • Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent
  • In-depth knowledge of the services industry and their IT systems
  • Practical cloud native experience
  • Experience in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field and expertise in technology disciplines
  • Hands-on experience designing and operating distributed, event-driven systems using Java, Spring Boot, and Apache Kafka in production at enterprise scale
  • Strong working knowledge of stream processing frameworks (Apache Flink or equivalent) and analytical data stores (ClickHouse, Druid, or similar) for real-time aggregation and time-series analytics
  • Demonstrated experience deploying and operating containerized workloads on Kubernetes (EKS) within AWS, including familiarity with infrastructure-as-code, autoscaling, and production incident response
  • Proven track record of delivering observability, monitoring, or alerting platforms — including threshold management, anomaly detection, or root-cause/impact-analysis capabilities - in mission-critical environments

Nice to have

  • Experience working with semantic layers or metrics stores (dbt MetricFlow, Cube, LookML, or equivalent) and understanding of the value of governed metric definitions across consuming applications
  • Background in payments, capital markets, or other regulated financial services domains, with appreciation for data residency, hybrid cloud, and regulatory constraints
  • Familiarity with Databricks Lakehouse architecture, Apache Iceberg, and modern data engineering patterns including medallion architecture and SCD2 modeling
  • Experience integrating OpenTelemetry traces and metrics into analytical platforms, and building observability solutions on top of telemetry data
  • Exposure to access control and policy frameworks (Open Policy Agent, Unity Catalog, attribute-based access control) for enforcing entitlements across federated data sources
  • Front-end leadership experience overseeing teams building data-dense ReactJS applications, with appreciation for D3.js or similar visualization libraries used in operational dashboards
  • Experience working in a federated platform model where the engineering team enables domain experts and partner teams rather than owning all business logic centrally

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years applied experience
  • Experience leading teams of technologists
  • Proven track record of delivering observability, monitoring, or alerting platforms — including threshold management, anomaly detection, or root-cause/impact-analysis capabilities - in mission-critical environments