What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Software Engineer - GCP ML Engineer position at JPMorganChase?
Job Description
We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Chief Data and Analytics Office, 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 conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.
Job Responsibilities
JPMorganChase, 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 offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.
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.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans
About The Team
Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.
We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Chief Data and Analytics Office, 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 conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.
Job Responsibilities
- Execute creative software solutions, design, development, and troubleshooting for ML pipelines and services.
- Develop secure, high‑quality production code; review and debug ML pipeline, data processing, and inference code.
- Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring ML pipeline issues to improve stability.
- Lead evaluation sessions with internal teams on ML architectures, scalability, and observability.
- Lead communities of practice around Vertex AI Pipelines, Feature Store, and MLOps best practices.
- Add to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.
- Design ML pipelines on Vertex AI Pipelines; automate ingestion, feature engineering, training, and deployment with reproducibility.
- Build and manage Feature Store and Model Registry; support fine‑tuning and online/batch inference at scale.
- Configure robust monitoring for model/data drift, security telemetry, and pipeline reliability; enforce alerting and SLOs.
- Implement encryption (CMEK/KMS), RBAC, org policies, and compliance controls across ML pipelines and artifacts.
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5 years applied experience.
- Hands‑on experience in system design, application/ML development, testing, and operational stability.
- Advanced proficiency in one or more programming languages (Python required).
- Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery for ML pipelines.
- Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle and MLOps practices.
- Advanced understanding of CI/CD, application resiliency, and security in ML systems.
- Practical cloud‑native experience (GCP) operating data/ML workloads.
- Demonstrated experience with Vertex AI Pipelines, Workbench, Predictions, and Feature Store.
- Experience with model registry, drift detection, and observability (metrics/traces/logs) for ML services.
- Ability to implement CMEK/KMS, org policy guardrails, and automated remediation controls.
- Experience with Vertex AI Search, Vector Search, and RAG pipelines.
- Familiarity with Gemini model families and evaluation instrumentation.
- Strong data engineering for encryption, tagging/labeling, and lineage.
- Competence in resource tagging aligned to Atlas 2.0 for security/finance/logging.
- Experience with cost management dashboards and spend alerting for ML workloads.
- Awareness of the GCP enablement roadmap (Florence/Atlas 2.0, JET integration).
JPMorganChase, 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 offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.
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.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans
About The Team
Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.
Salary : $152,000 - $215,000