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Lead Big Data Software Engineer - Spark, Java

JPMorgan Chase
Jersey, NJ Full Time
POSTED ON 4/7/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/7/2026

You’re ready to gain the skills and experience needed to grow within your role and advance your career — and we have the perfect software engineering opportunity for you.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Corporate Technology, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for design, development, and technical troubleshooting across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

 

Job responsibilities 

  • 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
  • Designs, develops, codes, and troubleshoots with consideration of upstream and downstream systems and technical implications
  • Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain to improve the value realized by automation
  • Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
  • Gathers, analyzes, and draws conclusions from large, diverse data sets to identify problems and contribute to decision-making in service of secure, stable application development
  • Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others

     

 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5 years applied experience
  • Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability, including AWS cloud computing
  • Advanced proficiency in one or more languages: Java, Python, Scala and  Strong SQL and database skills
  • Experience  with data structures and algorithms and efficient coding practices
  • Experience  with Spark and distributed computing
  • Demonstrated proficiency in code optimization and refactoring to enhance scalability and performance.
  • Ability to collaborate well with global teams in geographically distributed locations across time zones
  • Advanced understanding of agile methodologies, including CI/CD, application resiliency, and security.
  • Experience with automation and continuous delivery methods.

 

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Exposure to cloud technologies (AWS) 

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