Senior Lead Data Engineer

Job Description
Embrace this pivotal role as an essential member of a high performing team dedicated to reaching new heights in data engineering. Your contributions will be instrumental in shaping the future of one of the world's largest and most influential companies.
As a Senior Lead Data Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer Community Banking Data Center Management team, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver data collection, storage, access, and analytics in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You will leverage your deep technical expertise and problem solving capabilities to drive significant business impact and tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple data pipelines, data architectures, and other data consumers. You will work effectively across multiple teams to evaluate requirements and develop a data proposal that unifies all teams and aligns to enterprise standards.
This role requires detailed understanding of modern data engineering solutions for large and complex data sets as well as the ability to develop a strategic plan, present it to senior management, and drive the implementation.
Job responsibilities

• Develops and implements a comprehensive data strategy aligned with departmental and organizational goals
• Collaborates with stakeholders to understand data requirements and translate them into technical solutions
• Establishes data governance and quality standards to ensure data integrity and compliance
• Evaluates and selects appropriate data technologies (databases, ETL tools, cloud platforms) to meet current and future needs
• Optimizes data architecture and infrastructure for performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness
• Provides recommendations and insight on data management, governance procedures, and intricacies applicable to the acquisition, maintenance, validation, and utilization of data
• Designs and delivers trusted data collection, storage, access, and analytics data platform solutions in a secure, stable, and scalable way
• Defines database back-up, recovery, and archiving strategy
• Generates advanced data models for one or more teams using firmwide tooling, linear algebra, statistics, and geometrical algorithms
• Creates functional and technical documentation supporting best practices
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on Data Engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Working experience with both relational and NoSQL databases
• Advanced understanding of database back-up, recovery, and archiving strategies
• Advanced knowledge of linear algebra, statistics, and geometrical algorithms
• Experience presenting and delivering visual data
• Hands on experience with ETL tools and data integration frameworks
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Programming skills for data processing and automation
• Knowledge of data governance, data quality, and security best practices
• Experience with complex data models and data lakes
• Strong Project Management skills, deals well with ambiguity; can shape and define the future, take an idea and turn it into execution

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with business intelligence tools (e.g., Tableau, Qlik) and enabling self-service analytics
• Experience with cloud data platforms (e.g., AWS) and cloud-native data engineering tools
• 7+ years of related Data Engineering experience including designing and building data pipelines and architectures

About Us
Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America's households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve all their financial needs.
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.
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About the Team
Our Consumer & Community Banking division serves our Chase customers through a range of financial services, including personal banking, credit cards, mortgages, auto financing, investment advice, small business loans and payment processing. We're proud to lead the U.S. in credit card sales and deposit growth and have the most-used digital solutions - all while ranking first in customer satisfaction.