JPMorgan Chase
Senior Director of Software Engineering
$233K–$325K
Jersey City, NJ · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of applied experience, including 5+ years leading technologists.
- Education
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts.
About the job
Leads strategy, engineering, and end-to-end delivery of a Databricks-based data lake and consumption platform on AWS, including governed data products and enterprise AI-enabled engineering practices.
What you'll do
- Own the platform roadmap and delivery across data onboarding, access, and consumption; ensure production readiness, resilience, and audit readiness.
- Lead global engineering teams building pipelines, APIs, reporting products, and self-service analytics, and establish technical and delivery standards.
- Set governance and controls for data access and AI-enabled engineering, partnering with senior stakeholders on priorities, risk, and adoption.
What they ask for
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 10+ years of applied experience, including 5+ years leading technologists.
- Experience leading large or cross-functional, globally distributed engineering teams, including hiring and developing talent.
- Deep technical or architectural expertise in Databricks on AWS, including Unity Catalog, Delta Sharing, Lakehouse Federation, and data pipeline development.
- Experience delivering enterprise-scale data platforms and leading multi-organization adoption of agentic AI-enabled engineering models.
Nice to have
- Experience in financial services or another highly regulated industry.
- Experience with federated data access and sharing across multiple workspaces, catalogs, business units, or legal entities.
Pay
$232,750.00-$325,000.00 USD base salary
Tools
Databricks, AWS, Unity Catalog, Delta Sharing, Lakehouse Federation
AI focus
Leads adoption of agentic AI-enabled engineering and SDLC/TLM automation, setting portfolio governance, human oversight, validation, security, resilience, traceability, and measurement practices.
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