Data Platform Principal Software Engineer (Corporate Technology)

hackajob is collaborating with J.P. Morgan to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. JOB DESCRIPTION As a Principal Software Engineer in Corporate Technology, you will be a senior individual contributor responsible for architecting, building, and operating firmwide data platform capabilities that enable secure, scalable, and reliable data products. You will set technical direction, drive engineering excellence, and partner across technology, product, controls, and business teams to deliver measurable outcomes across JPMorganChase. Job Responsibilities Define and drive the technical strategy and roadmap for key data platform capabilities including ingestion, transformation, orchestration, metadata, lineage, and data quality. Design and implement scalable platform services and reusable frameworks that standardize data onboarding, curation, and consumption. Own end-to-end delivery for complex initiatives from discovery and architecture through build, rollout, and production readiness. Establish and enforce engineering standards for resiliency, performance, observability, capacity management, and cost efficiency. Lead design reviews and provide reference architectures, patterns, and guardrails adopted by multiple engineering teams. Build and maintain automation for CI/CD, infrastructure as code, policy as code, and repeatable onboarding to reduce operational toil. Drive operational excellence through SLOs, monitoring, incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement. Partner with security, risk, and controls stakeholders to ensure platform solutions meet regulatory, audit, and data governance requirements. Influence senior stakeholders through clear communication of trade-offs, risks, and progress using metrics and outcomes. Mentor and raise the bar for engineering practices through hands-on leadership, code reviews, and technical community engagement. Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills Extensive experience delivering large-scale software platforms or data platforms in complex enterprise environments. Strong distributed systems and platform engineering expertise including reliability, scalability, fault tolerance, and service design. Hands-on experience with data platform domains such as batch and streaming ingestion, orchestration, data processing, and data serving patterns. Proven ability to build production-grade systems with robust testing, deployment automation, monitoring, and operational controls. Strong knowledge of data governance and control concepts including access management, encryption, retention, auditability, and privacy. Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages and strong API and systems design skills. Demonstrated ability to lead through influence as a senior individual contributor across multiple teams and stakeholders. Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to varied audiences. Proven track record of being a highly motivated self-starter Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills Experience building self-service platform products and improving developer experience through portals, templates, and golden paths. Experience operating platforms in cloud and containerized environments with infrastructure automation. Experience implementing metadata-driven architectures and standardized data product patterns. Experience building controls for sensitive data including data classification, policy enforcement, and privacy-by-design. Experience in financial services or other highly regulated industries. ABOUT US JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management. 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. JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans ABOUT THE TEAM Our Corporate Technology team relies on smart, driven people like you to develop applications and provide tech support for all our corporate functions across our network. Your efforts will touch lives all over the financial spectrum and across all our divisions: Global Finance, Corporate Treasury, Risk Management, Human Resources, Compliance, Legal, and within the Corporate Administrative Office. You'll be part of a team specifically built to meet and exceed our evolving technology needs, as well as our technology controls agenda.aa415a4b-8b21-40fc-a65c-70d2b25ca29a J.P. Morgan