Overview

Director of Data Engineering – Chase UK at JPMorgan Chase. The role focuses on delivering end-to-end data pipeline solutions on cloud infrastructure, enabling data-driven decision making across functional areas such as finance, treasury operations, financial crime prevention, regulatory reporting and analytics. This position is part of a geographically distributed, diverse team within the International Consumer Bank, based in London, UK.

Responsibilities

• Lead data engineering teams to achieve functional technology objectives and continuously update technologies and patterns.
• Make strategic decisions that influence resources, budget, and the implementation of processes and procedures.
• Carry governance accountability for coding decisions, control obligations, and measures of success (cost of ownership, maintainability, portfolio operations).
• Deliver end-to-end data pipeline solutions on cloud infrastructure using current best practices.
• Use domain modelling to build best-in-class business products.
• Structure software for readability, testability, evolution, and scalability; avoid single points of failure.
• Develop secure code; promptly investigate and fix issues and prevent recurrence.
• Ensure releases occur with zero downtime for end users.
• Ensure data is written and read in a way optimized for business needs.
• Monitor performance and reliability; keep systems easy to operate.
• Support products throughout their lifecycle, including production and incident management.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities & Skills

• Formal training or certification in data engineering; strong experience leading technologists to manage and solve complex technical items within your domain.
• Recent hands-on professional experience as a data engineer.
• Experience coding in Python (recent version).
• Understanding of event-driven architecture, data streaming and messaging frameworks.
• Experience designing and implementing effective tests (unit, component, integration, end-to-end, performance).
• Experience with cloud technologies and distributed systems.
• Experience with data transformation frameworks and data pipeline orchestration tools.
• Experience managing large data volumes and optimizing data processing.
• Coaching others on coding practices, design principles, and maintainable solutions.
• Ability to manage stakeholders and prioritize work across multiple work streams.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities & Skills

• Experience in highly regulated environments/industries.
• Experience with AWS cloud technologies.
• Experience with data governance frameworks.
• Understanding of incremental data processing and versioning.
• Understanding of RESTful APIs and web technologies.

About Us

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to corporations, governments, high-net-worth individuals and institutions. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion. We do not discriminate on protected attributes and provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees as needed.

About the Team: Our corporate functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing; the teams ensure we set our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.