Lead Software Engineer - Data and Payments Data Platform

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 - Data and Payments Data Platform at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Banking - Data Analytics Payment Team, 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.

Lead the design and delivery of an activity monitoring solution spanning a React UI and Java/Spring Boot backend services, ensuring scalability, resiliency, and a low-latency user experience with responsive APIs. Lead the design and evolution of event-driven microservices workflows, using Kafka for inter-service communication and reliable asynchronous processing (at-least-once delivery, retries, and DLQ patterns). Set and uphold engineering standards for the team’s Spring Boot services (API design, error handling, security, logging, performance tuning, versioning). Partner with product owners and stakeholders to translate monitoring/operational requirements into clear technical designs, delivery plans, and measurable outcomes. Design and maintain data access patterns across MySQL and Databricks, including connectivity, data retrieval strategies, and performance-efficient query patterns. Establish and evolve the deployment strategy (blue/green, canary, rollback, configuration management) aligned to engineering and operational needs on AWS. Own and improve CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, including automated builds, tests, quality gates, release orchestration, and environment promotions. Design, build, and maintain the React-based UI, including performant, data-heavy grid experiences using AG Grid, state management, and frontend quality controls. Ensure production readiness through observability (metrics, logs, tracing), alerting, incident response runbooks, and proactive problem management. Drive team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes, while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns. Apply knowledge of SDLC toolchains, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation. Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience In addition, 2+ years in a technical lead / lead engineer role driving design and delivery with cross-functional partners and being an highly collaborative team player with strong ownership/accountability and a high-energy delivery mindset (bias for action, urgency, excellence) Strong hands-on expertise in Java and Spring Boot and strong working proficiency in Python for automation, data access utilities, and developer productivity tooling Proven experience designing and operating Kafka-based systems (topics/partitions, consumer groups, ordering, delivery semantics, retries/DLQs). Strong MySQL experience (schema design, indexing, query optimization, transactions) and solid data modeling skills Familiarity with NoSQL datastores and search technologies (e.g., Elasticsearch) and when to use them Working experience with Databricks and practical knowledge of connecting applications to Databricks to retrieve data securely and efficiently. Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness,