JPMorgan Chase
Lead Software Engineer - Databricks
$157K–$215K
Jersey City, NJ · Full-time · Posted Jul 15, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years in data engineering, including 2+ years leading delivery/architecture for multi-team data platforms.
About the job
Leads the design, delivery, and operation of secure, scalable Databricks Lakehouse data platforms on AWS, including pipelines, governance, performance, and engineering practices.
What you'll do
- Architect lakehouse layers and domain data products; build resilient batch and streaming ingestion and maintainable pipelines.
- Productionize and operate workloads with monitoring, incident response, reliability controls, governance, and performance and cost optimization.
- Lead and mentor engineers, set standards, and coordinate delivery with stakeholders and security/platform teams.
What they ask for
- Hands-on experience building and operating a Databricks Lakehouse hosted in AWS, with deep Delta Lake and Spark on Databricks experience.
- Experience with batch and streaming pipelines, AWS data-platform fundamentals, and Databricks governance and security controls.
- Demonstrated ownership of reliability, including monitoring, incident response, root-cause analysis, and SLO/SLA management.
- Experience with Terraform, CI/CD, testing, version control, code review, and documentation.
Pay
$156,750.00-$215,000.00 USD base salary
Tools
Databricks, AWS, Delta Lake, Spark, Structured Streaming, Unity Catalog, Delta Live Tables (DLT), Terraform
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