Lead Data Engineer

JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Jersey City, NJ, United States
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Airflow Amazon Web Services Business Analytics Applications Microsoft Azure Information Engineering Data Infrastructure Extract Transform Load (ETL) Data Structures Data Systems Data Warehousing Database Queries
+14 more
Distributed Computing Environment Fault Tolerance Python (Programming Language) Object-Oriented Software Development Performance Tuning Cloud Services SQL Databases Strategies of Testing Workflow Management Systems Data Processing Google Cloud Cloud Platform System Pyspark Data Pipelines

Job description

As a Lead Data Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Corporate Sector, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver data collection, storage, access, and analytics solutions in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for maintaining critical data pipelines and architectures across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives., * Delivers data collection, storage, access, and analytics data platform solutions in a secure, stable, and scalable way

  • Build and optimize batch and streaming data pipelines with strong performance, fault tolerance, and observability
  • Develop and operate workflow orchestration (e.g., Apache Airflow) to schedule, monitor, and manage data movement and transformations
  • Model and transform data for analytics using SQL to support business intelligence and reporting workloads
  • Write production-grade Python/PySpark code with disciplined testing, performance tuning, and maintainable object-oriented design
  • Collaborate with analysts, data scientists, and application teams to turn requirements into technical designs and delivered solutions
  • Own critical data systems by improving reliability, scalability, security, and operational excellence
  • Mentor junior engineers and influence the team’s technical direction through standards, reviews, and knowledge sharing
  • Uses enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate data platform and model design analysis and documentation, validating outputs and handling data according to sensitivity and security requirements
  • Applies reuse-first, AI-assisted practices within delivery and operational routines (e.g., backup/recovery validation and access control review support), ensuring traceability/auditability and alignment to resiliency and security expectations

Requirements

  • Formal training or certification on data engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
  • Demonstrated experience delivering in an agile, fast-paced engineering environment. Hands-on professional experience actively coding as a data engineer
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals (system design, data structures, object-oriented programming, testing strategies, and end-to-end development lifecycle)
  • Strong understanding of creating and maintaining data models (conceptual, logical, and physical), including dimensional and normalized modeling approaches
  • Hands-on experience building and operating cloud-based data platforms using major cloud services (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure)
  • Experience with large-scale distributed data processing and performance tuning
  • Hands-on experience with modern data warehousing/lakehouse technologies. Strong SQL skills and experience with SQL-based transformation tooling
  • Experience designing and operating orchestration pipelines using Airflow or similar tools
  • Demonstrated experience using enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to support data engineering workflows with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity
  • Ability to review and validate AI-assisted outputs (e.g., model/design summaries or operational checklists) before use, escalating when uncertain and following data handling requirements

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., 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.

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