Lead Software Engineer (VP)

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Lead Software Engineer (VP) in USA

JPMorgan Chase
Full time
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USA
09/17/2026
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Jersey City, NJ

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end architecture for Athena, Databricks, and AWS-based valuation-control platforms.
Develop pricing, risk, IPV, valuation-adjustment, and fair-value reporting tools within Athena.
Design, build, and optimize Databricks ETL and analytics pipelines for pricing, market, and P&L data.
Architect and manage AWS cloud-native solutions, including infrastructure, security, automation, and modernization.
Establish engineering standards, code-quality practices, CI/CD processes, testing frameworks, and production monitoring.
Deliver automation and controls for independent price verification, valuation uncertainty detection, reconciliations, and regulatory compliance.
Collaborate with valuation control, risk, finance, quantitative, and business stakeholders to define requirements and deliver solutions.
Provide technical leadership, mentor engineering teams, oversee production support, and ensure scalable, auditable, and resilient systems.
Promote enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering and automation practices with appropriate secure-coding, peer-review, and validation standards.

Requirements

Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
Extensive Python engineering experience, including platform and financial application engineering for derivatives pricing, risk management, trade booking, or quantitative analytics.
Strong Databricks and Apache Spark experience, including PySpark, Delta Lake, and performance tuning.
Hands-on AWS experience with S3, EC2, Lambda, IAM, and container or orchestration services, plus cloud-security and cost-management knowledge.
Understanding of financial products, valuation and pricing concepts, and market data.
Experience leading engineering teams and delivering technology in a controlled, regulated environment.
Strong SQL, data modeling, and data-quality engineering skills.
Strong stakeholder-management skills and ability to bridge business and technical domains.
Preferred qualifications include knowledge of IPV, prudent valuation, XVA, or fair-value reserves; reactive or streaming computation and real-time dashboards; Terraform or CloudFormation; modern AWS DevOps practices; and relevant AWS certification.

Benefits

Competitive total rewards package with base salary determined by role, experience, skill set, and location; eligible roles may also receive commission-based pay or discretionary incentive compensation.
Benefits may include comprehensive health care, on-site health and wellness centers, retirement savings, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, and financial coaching.
Equal opportunity employer with reasonable accommodations for religious practices, mental health needs, and disabilities.

Salary: $157k - $215k/yr

JPMorgan Chase

With a history tracing its roots to 1799 in New York City, JPMorganChase is one of the world's oldest, largest, and best-known financial institutions—carrying forth the innovative spirit of our heritage firms in global operations across 100 markets. We serve millions of customers and many of the ...

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