Senior Software Engineering Manager - Pyspark, SQL & AI

Build what powers better decisions at scale. In this role, you’ll lead multiple engineering teams delivering modern data engineering and business intelligence capabilities that enable critical finance outcomes. You’ll create an environment where engineers do their best work—shipping reliably, raising quality, and learning continuously. You’ll also help scale responsible, enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices to unlock productivity while protecting security and data sensitivity. If you enjoy combining people leadership with technical depth and measurable impact, this is your opportunity.

Job Summary:
As a Senior Software Engineering Manager in the Corporate Technology, Asset & Wealth Management Finance team, you will lead multiple engineering teams delivering data engineering and business intelligence solutions that support finance stakeholders. You will set clear technical direction, operating practices, and delivery expectations across teams, balancing speed with quality and operational excellence. You will partner closely with business and technology leaders to prioritize outcomes and align roadmaps. You will build an inclusive culture focused on ownership, continuous improvement, and responsible use of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead multiple teams delivering data engineering platforms and analytics solutions aligned to finance priorities

• Define and execute the data engineering roadmap, including scalable pipeline design and modernization

• Architect and guide PySpark-based processing patterns to improve performance, reliability, and maintainability

• Deliver business intelligence capabilities by partnering with stakeholders to define requirements and drive adoption

• Establish engineering standards for code quality, testing, documentation, and production readiness

• Drive operational excellence by monitoring service health, reducing incidents, and improving recoverability

• Develop talent through coaching, feedback, hiring, and succession planning across teams

• Partner with risk, security, and governance stakeholders to ensure appropriate handling of sensitive data

• Sets and scales operating practices for enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering and SDLC/TLM automation across multiple teams to improve delivery speed, quality, and operational outcomes; establishes measurable expectations (e.g., throughput, defect reduction, reliability) and ensures consistent validation, security, resiliency, and reuse of proven patterns

• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to drive efficiency and support capacity unlock initiatives across teams, prioritizing reuse of existing firm technology assets

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Demonstrated people leadership experience managing multiple engineering teams and leaders

• Hands-on knowledge of data engineering concepts, including batch processing patterns and data pipeline design

• Hands-on experience building or supporting PySpark-based solutions in production environments

• Experience delivering business intelligence solutions using business intelligence tools

• Strong ability to translate business outcomes into actionable engineering roadmaps and delivery plans

• Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including code quality, testing, and production support

• Effective stakeholder management skills, including influencing across technology and business partners

• Experience leading multi-team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and delivery tools, including defining governance/ways of working (human-in-the-loop validation, quality gates), measuring outcomes, and ensuring secure handling of sensitive inputs/outputs

• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, resiliency/security implications, and control expectations; ability to coach managers/leads and influence leaders on safe scaling patterns

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Experience delivering data and analytics solutions in a finance-aligned domain

• Experience building reusable data products and enabling self-service analytics at scale

• Experience leading large-scale modernization initiatives across teams

• Familiarity with establishing metrics for engineering throughput, quality, and reliability across organizations

• Experience partnering with geographically distributed teams and stakeholders

About the company

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

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.

About the team

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.