Lead Software Engineer - DataBricks / PySpark

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Technology Workforce Data Analytics team, you play a crucial role in an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering trusted, market-leading technology products that are secure, stable, and scalable. As a key technical contributor, you are tasked with implementing critical technology solutions across multiple technical domains, supporting various business functions to achieve the firms business objectives.

Job Responsibilities:

• Execute creative data solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems.
• Develop secure high-quality production data pipelines, and review and debug data processes implemented by others.
• Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of data applications and systems.
• Lead 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.
• Lead communities of practice across Data Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies.
• Contribute to a team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• 3+ years of experience in Data Engineering, specifically design, application development, testing and operational stability in Python, PySpark, Glue, Lambda, Databricks and AWS .
• Knowledge of Unity Catalog, data formats including Delta tables, Iceberg tables.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Advanced proficiency in data processing frameworks and tools, including knowledge in Parquet and Iceberg.
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods.
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security.
• Demonstrated proficiency in data applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.).
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems.
• Practical cloud-native experience.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• AWS Certification
• Databricks Certification