JOB DESCRIPTION
Your opportunity to make a real impact and shape the future of financial services is waiting for you. Let's push the boundaries of what's possible together.
As a Data Governance Engineering Lead at JPMorgan Chase in the Chief Data Analytics Office, you will lead complex, multi-functional technology projects and programs that will impact experiences for multiple groups across the firm, including clients, employees, and stakeholders. With your advanced analytical reasoning and adaptability skills will enable you to break down business, technical, and operational objectives into manageable tasks, while navigating through ambiguity and driving change. With demonstrated technical fluency, you will effectively manage resources, budgets, and cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions that align with the firm's strategic goals. Your exceptional communication and influencing abilities will foster productive relationships with stakeholders, ensuring alignment and effective risk management. In this pivotal role, you will contribute to the development of new policies and processes, shaping the future of our technology landscape
Job responsibilities
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Manage the Data Governance roadmap across the organisation, ensuring alignment with evolving global privacy strategic priorities, and lines of business.
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Lead key Firmwide privacy-centric initiatives such as consent management, data retention, cross-border data transfer governance
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Responsible for the structure of roadmap delivery and operating model across the organisation
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Oversee engineering projects, risks, issues, and dependencies across the Data Governance book of work,
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Develop and maintain data governance metrics, KPIs, and dashboards to provide executive-level visibility into the firm's privacy posture, incident trends, and regulatory compliance status
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Prepare and deliver comprehensive reports and presentations to C-Level Executives, including the Operating Committee, to communicate program status, risks, and achievements
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Partner with the product organisation to drive business outcomes, ensuring that technical programs are aligned with strategic business goals
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Sets and scales multi-department strategy for agentic AI-enabled engineering and SDLC/TLM automation (using enterprise-authorised tools within the work environment) to drive firmwide objectives (speed, scalability, reliability, and cost-to-serve), including portfolio-level standards for AI-orchestrated delivery workflows, release governance, automated test modernisation, resilience engineering, and incident response acceleration; establishes guardrails for validation, security, resiliency, traceability, and reuse
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Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorised AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to drive cross-domain reuse and measurable capacity unlock outcomes across departments
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
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10+ years of leadership in building technology applications and architecture with an overall of around 20 years experience and 5+ years at Director level
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Strong understanding of global data governance regulations to drive technical architecture decisions and engineering requirements
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Strong experience in program management, stakeholder management and building technical data platforms using AWS
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Experience with enterprise-scale implementations of cloud-native data platforms such as Databricks and Snowflake
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Experience navigating complex data governance, security, and compliance requirements across multi-cloud and hybrid data environments at enterprise scale with demonstrated proficiency in technical solutions, vendor product knowledge, managing vendor relations, and implementing solutions
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Knowledge of records retention, legal holds, and defensible disposal across structured and unstructured data, including backups and snapshots
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Proven track record deploying and governing enterprise metadata, catalog, and lineage platforms plus practical expertise with data contracts and schema governance
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Demonstrated ability to evaluate and drive technical decisions regarding data platform trade-offs including performance optimisation, cost management, scalability, and operational excellence
- Technical understanding of modern data platform architectures including data lakes, data warehouses, lakehouse architectures, and distributed computing frameworks
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Experience leading multi-organisation adoption of agentic AI-enabled engineering operating models (using enterprise-authorised tools within the work environment), including defining governance (human-in-the-loop decisioning, quality gates), measurement frameworks, and secure handling of sensitive inputs/outputs across teams
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Deep understanding of responsible AI risk, controls, and resiliency/security expectations at scale, with demonstrated ability to advise senior leaders on safe adoption, portfolio governance, and reuse-first strategies
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
