Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Consumer and Community Banking, 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 firms business objectives.

Job responsibilities

 

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of robust, scalable cloud-based data processing pipelines and infrastructure, ensuring adherence to engineering standards, governance frameworks, and industry best practices.
• Architect and refine data models for large-scale datasets, optimizing for efficient storage, high-performance retrieval, and advanced analytics while upholding data integrity and quality.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to translate complex business requirements into effective, scalable data engineering solutions that drive organizational value.
• Champion a culture of innovation and continuous improvement, proactively identifying and implementing enhancements to data infrastructure, processing workflows, and analytics capabilities.
• Define and execute data strategy, including the development of enterprise data models and the management of end-to-end data infrastructurefrom design and construction to installation and ongoing maintenance of large-scale processing systems.
• Drive data quality initiatives, ensure seamless data accessibility for analysts and data scientists, and maintain strict compliance with data governance and regulatory requirements.
• Align data engineering practices with business objectives, ensuring solutions are both technically sound and strategically relevant.
• Author, review, and approve technical requirements and architectural designs, and lead process re-engineering efforts to deliver cost-effective, high-impact business solution

 

 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

 

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Expert in at least one distributed data processing framework (Spark)
• Expert in at least one cloud data Lakehouse platforms (AWS Data lake services or Databricks, if not Hadoop),
• Expert in at least one scheduling/orchestration tools ( Airflow, alternatively AWS Step Functions or similar) 
• Expert with relational and NoSQL databases.
• Expert in data structures, data serialization formats (JSON, AVRO, Protobuf, or similar), and big-data storage formats (Parquet, Iceberg, or similar)
• Proficiency in microservices architecture, serverless computing and distributed cluster computing tools such as Docker, Kubernetes etc.
• Proficiency in one or more data modelling techniques (Dimensional, Data Vault, Kimball, Inmon, etc.)
• Experience with test-driven development (TDD) or behavior-driven development (BDD) practices, as well as working with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools.
• Experience organizing and leading design workshops, coding sessions, and hackathons to promote a culture of excellence and innovation in data engineering.
• Expertise in architecting reusable, future-ready design patterns that address diverse use cases across the organization.
• Expertise in working with streaming platforms like Kafka, MQ etc.

 

• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, preferably Terraform; experience with AWS CloudFormation is also valued.
• Proficiency in cloud-based data pipeline technologies such as Spinnaker  or similar platforms.
• Strong working knowledge of the Snowflake data platform.
• Experience in budgeting and resource allocation for data engineering projects.
• Proven ability to manage vendor relationships effectively.

Carry out critical tech solutions across multiple technical areas as an integral part of an agile team