Software Engineer II – Python / Databricks

Are you ready to shape the future of data engineering at JPMorganChase? Join a dynamic team where your unique skills will help build innovative solutions and contribute to a winning culture. You'll have opportunities for career growth, collaborate with talented professionals, and make a real impact on our business objectives. Your expertise will empower our teams and drive success across the firm.
As a Software Engineer II at JPMorganChase within Investment Banking Data Products, you will design and deliver reliable data collection, storage, access, and analytics solutions that are secure, stable, and scalable. You will develop, test, and maintain essential data pipelines and architectures, supporting various business functions to achieve the firm's goals. Working alongside talented engineers, you will use your skills to drive innovation and help shape our team culture — one built on excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Job responsibilities
Develop workflows and extract, load, and transform pipelines using Python and Databricks to support scalable and reliable data solutions
Support the review of controls to ensure sufficient protection of enterprise data across the data lifecycle
Implement data security using entitlements frameworks to safeguard sensitive information
Update logical and physical data models based on evolving business use cases and requirements
Apply SQL expertise — including complex joins and aggregations — and leverage working knowledge of NoSQL databases to support diverse data access patterns
Apply reuse-first, AI-assisted practices to strengthen software development lifecycle quality routines for data pipelines (e.g., test generation and control validation), ensuring traceability, auditability, and alignment to resiliency and security expectations
Uses enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate data pipeline design and documentation, validating outputs and handling data according to sensitivity and security requirements
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and expanding applied experience
Good working knowledge of cloud-based data services (especially Glue jobs and Federated Data Lake), unified analytics platforms, and Python
Experience across the data lifecycle, including ingestion, transformation, storage, and access patterns
Advanced proficiency in SQL, including joins and aggregations, with a working understanding of NoSQL databases
Significant experience with statistical data analysis and the ability to determine appropriate tools and data patterns for analysis
Experience utilizing cloud services for developing, deploying, and managing applications at scale
Good understanding and working knowledge of software development lifecycle tools used for configuration management, continuous integration and delivery pipelines, unit testing, regression testing, and performance testing
Working knowledge of using enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to support software engineering workflows with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity
Ability to review and validate AI-assisted code and technical recommendations before use, escalating when uncertain and following security and data handling requirements
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
Familiarity with standardized data layer practices such as Medallion architecture
Exposure to relational database platforms and cloud data warehousing solutions
Curiosity and foundational understanding of generative AI, large language models, and AI/ML solutions
Skills in designing efficient data models, including normalization, denormalization, and schema design, with an understanding of relational and star schemas