Lead Data Engineer

Join us as we embark on a journey of collaboration and innovation, where your unique skills and talents will be valued and celebrated. Together we will create a brighter future and make a meaningful difference.

As a Lead Data Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Finance Technology Team, 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.

Job responsibilities

• 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 firm wide tooling, linear algebra, statistics, and geometrical algorithms
• Approves data analysis tools and processes
• Creates functional and technical documentation supporting best practices
• Advises junior engineers and technologists

• Evaluates and reports on access control processes to determine effectiveness of data asset security

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on Data Engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Demonstrated leadership abilities, including leading and mentoring a team of data engineers.
• Expertise in designing and implementing scalable data architectures and pipelines.
• Strong proficiency in programming languages such as Python and PySpark.
• Experience with AWS cloud platform including their data services.
• In-depth knowledge of data warehousing solutions and ETL processes.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, analysts, and business stakeholders.
• Experience with data governance and ensuring data quality and integrity.
• Proficiency in Big Data technologies, with a strong focus on Performance Optimization using best practices
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Experience with version control systems like Git and CI/CD pipelines for data engineering workflows.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with Databricks using PySpark
• Solid understanding of the Parquet file format.

• Familiarity with machine learning frameworks and integrating them into data pipelines.