Lead Software Engineer - Databricks/Snowflake/AWS at JPMorgan Chase
Plano, TX
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Jul 9, 2026
Plano, TX
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A lead-level engineering role on a risk technology team, focused on building and maintaining data pipelines, ETL workflows, and APIs using Python, Spark, Databricks, Snowflake, and AWS services. The position involves data modeling, platform migrations, and guiding junior engineers on architecture and AI-assisted development practices. Suits an experienced engineer with a strong data engineering background and hands-on cloud and CI/CD experience.
Senior level · 8+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 260 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 190–330
Applicant volume Light — Few people clear these requirements, so an application that does clear them gets looked at. Worth applying to even if you miss a nice-to-have.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $170,499 (middle half $133,523–$210,499).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The title 'Lead Software Engineer' maps to Senior on the seniority ladder — it signals ownership of a workstream and mentorship of junior engineers, but not org-wide technical authority (Staff/Principal). The 8+ years requirement is consistent with Senior.
The role is roughly split between software engineering and data engineering (Snowflake, Databricks, Spark, ETL pipelines), which is why 15-1243 (Database Architects) is listed as a runner-up. The primary framing is application/software delivery, so 15-1252 was chosen.
The posting references 'Julies' and 'True CD' in the deployment pipeline section — these appear to be typos or internal tool names (likely 'Jules' and 'TrueCD' or similar). 'Julies' was not emitted as a skill due to the ambiguity; Jenkins and Spinnaker were captured as named.
AWS is listed under Preferred qualifications as 'Exposure to cloud technologies (i.e., AWS)', but AWS-specific services (ECS, Lambda, API Gateway) are hard-required in the Required section — those were captured individually as required. The generic AWS preferred skill is marked preferred.
No compensation figures were provided in the posting.
Location is not explicitly stated in the posting; JPMorgan Chase's Corporate Technology teams are headquartered in New York, NY, so the CBSA was inferred as New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA.
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