Senior Lead Software Engineer - Platform/Data Architect

Job Description
Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.
As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Payments Technology 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. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications. You will design, develop, and optimize high-performance, distributed transactional data systems that power mission-critical financial applications. You will build scalable, fault-tolerant, and low-latency OLTP platforms that handle millions of transactions per second, ensuring data consistency, high availability, and regulatory compliance.
Job responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
• Architect and implement distributed OLTP platforms using CockroachDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, or SQL Server to support high-throughput transactional workloads.
• Design, develop, and optimize RESTful APIs for real-time transaction processing, ensuring efficient database interactions and minimal latency.
• Develop and maintain distributed data pipelines for handling event-driven transactions with Apache Kafka, MQ, or Kinesis.
• Collaborate with SRE/DevOps teams to deploy and monitor OLTP databases in cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) using Kubernetes and containerized deployments.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s)
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Practical cloud native experience
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
• Architect and implement distributed OLTP platforms using CockroachDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, or SQL Server to support high-throughput transactional workloads
• Expertise in distributed relational databases such as CockroachDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Oracle.
• Experience with RESTful API development, including best practices for database access, connection pooling, and API rate limiting.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Python, Go, or C++ for API development and data engineering tasks.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience designing high-availability, multi-region OLTP architectures with active-active replication.
• Hands-on experience with NoSQL transactional databases like DynamoDB.
• Understanding of CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) and event sourcing in OLTP systems.
• Prior experience in real-time payments, fraud detection, financial transaction processing.
• Deep understanding of CAP theorem, consistency models, distributed locking, and replication strategies.
• Strong knowledge of database security, access controls, encryption, and regulatory compliance.

About Us
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
J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.