Lead Data Engineer - AWS & Python

Join us as we embark on a journey of collaboration and innovation, where your unique skills and talents will be valued and celebrated. Together we will create a brighter future and make a meaningful difference.

As a Lead Data Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer and Community Banking division, you will be an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver data collection, storage, access, and analytics solutions in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You will be a core technical contributor responsible for maintaining critical data pipelines and architectures across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm's business objectives. You will deliver innovative data management solutions using Python and AWS.

Lead Data Engineer delivering innovative data management solutions using Python and AWS.

Job responsibilities

• Provide direction, oversight, and coaching for a team of entry-level to mid-level engineers working on basic to moderately complex tasks.
• Executes solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems.
• Collaborate with data analysts, data scientists, and business stakeholders to understand data requirements and translate them into effective visual solutions.
• Work in an Agile development environment with team members, including Product Managers, SRE Engineers.
• Develop secure, high-quality production code, review and debug code written by others, and drive decisions influencing product design, application functionality, and technical operations.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus and actively contribute to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the end to end Development Life Cycle.
• Influence peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies.
• Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies in Data Management, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on data engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• 5+ years of demonstrated coaching and mentoring experience.
• Hands-on experience in writing code using Python libraries such as Pandas, Boto3, PySpark, and Jupyter Notebooks, along with 3+ years of AWS services experience including Glue, S3, Kafka, and Kubernetes.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Collaborate with various stakeholders and independently tackle design and functionality challenges with minimal oversight.
• Proficient in automation and continuous delivery methods.
• Skilled in resolving code issues and proficient in Git for managing repositories and team collaboration.
• Experience and proficiency across the data lifecycle.
• Evaluates and reports on access control processes to determine effectiveness of data asset security with minimal supervision.
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies, Application Resiliency, and Security.
• Bachelor's degree in data science, Computer Science, Information Systems, Statistics, or a related field.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Strong Python experience, especially in the context of developing solutions for large financial platforms.
• Strong experience in AWS serverless services including expertise in using AWS Step functions, Lambda , Dynamodb and NoSQL database services
• Experience using AWS Lake Formation service.
• Familiarity with Snowflake/Databricks or other PaaS offerings.
• Experience with metadata management and machine learning.

Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America's households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve all their financial needs.

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.

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