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J.P. Morgan

Lead Data Engineer

city of jersey city, NJ

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JOB DESCRIPTION

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 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.

Job responsibilities

* 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

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

* 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 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.

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