Sr. Principal Software Engineer

About the role

As a Senior Principal Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank's Markets - Markets Data Lake (MDL) team, you will be the technical authority for how data is governed, secured, and authorized across this mesh, and you will provide regional technical leadership across the India team — one of MDL's primary engineering hubs.

What you'll do

• Serve as the senior technical leader in-region for the India-based MDL engineering team
• Grow and mentor senior, staff, and up-and-coming engineers in India; establish a strong local engineering culture, review practices, and career-development pathways
• Own regional delivery of major platform initiatives end-to-end, coordinating across time zones with global stakeholders and partner teams
• Build in-region depth in governance, authorization, and data-mesh capabilities so the India team owns critical platform domains, not just execution
• Represent MDL locally — interviewing and hiring, onboarding, and raising the engineering bar across the India hub

What you need

• SQL
• Python
• Java
• Go
• Kafka
• CI/CD

Good to have

• Terraform
• Internal audit
• Data modelling
• Capital markets
• Data privacy
• LLMs