Senior Lead Technical Data Engineer - Compute Data Platform

Job Description
Join us and make a real difference as you tackle complex data engineering challenges that influence the direction of a global leader. You will have the opportunity to leverage your expertise, collaborate with talented colleagues, and drive innovation across multiple data pipelines and architectures. At JPMorganChase, we empower you to grow your career while making a meaningful impact. Be part of a team that values your contributions and supports your professional development.
As a Senior Lead Data Engineer in the Compute Infrastructure Platforms team, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing, building, and delivering secure, stable, and scalable data solutions. You will work within an agile environment, using your technical expertise to solve diverse challenges and support critical business objectives. You will help shape our data strategy and contribute to a culture of inclusion, opportunity, and respect. Your work will directly impact how we collect, store, and analyze data across the organization.
Job Responsibilities:

• Provide recommendations and insights on data management and governance procedures
• Design and deliver trusted data platform solutions for collection, storage, access, and analytics
• Define strategies for database backup, recovery, and archiving
• Generate advanced data models using firmwide tools, linear algebra, statistics, and geometrical algorithms
• Approve data analysis tools and processes
• Create functional and technical documentation supporting best practices
• Advise and mentor junior engineers and technologists
• Evaluate and report on access control processes to ensure data asset security
• Foster a team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Experience working with complex data structures or advanced data analysis
• Proficiency with both relational and NoSQL databases
• Advanced understanding of database backup, recovery, and archiving strategies
• Strong knowledge of linear algebra, statistics, and geometrical algorithms
• Ability to present and deliver visual data effectively

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Expertise in database performance optimization, including query tuning and indexing strategies
• Experience leading technical teams and mentoring junior engineers
• Ability to collaborate with business stakeholders, data scientists, and software engineers
• Strong skills in documenting data models, architecture decisions, and operational procedures
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and monitoring tools
• Understanding of modern enterprise compute infrastructure, including virtualized and cloud solutions
• Experience with Databricks, Parquet, Iceberg, or other high-volume data solutions

About Us
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.