Commercial Investment Bank - Lead Data Architect - Associate or Vice President

JPMorganChase; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in London is seeking a Lead Data Architect to define and manage data products, ensuring high quality and accessibility. You will collaborate with teams in a dynamic environment, leveraging your strong programming skills in Python and database management. The ideal candidate has a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field and experience within the Financial Services sector. Join our innovative team and help drive our data initiatives forward.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Data Engineer or similar role.
• Experience with data / technology projects in the Financial Services sector.
• Ability to build and optimize data sets and 'big data' pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with Quant Research and Technology on Sales data products.
• Automate data quality monitoring and data lineage registration.
• Develop proof-of-concept data product prototypes.
• Translate data consumer requirements into actionable development tasks.
• Manage releases and track development timelines.
• Prioritize features and drive resolution of data quality issues.

Skills

Python programming skills

Data query languages

Relational databases

NoSQL databases

Strong communication skills

Attention to detail

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Job description

Job Description

Job Summary

As a Lead Data Architect on the Markets Sales CDAO team in London, you will be responsible for defining data products and their attributes, analysing and restructuring existing data products, and ensuring high standards of data quality and accessibility while working in a dynamic environment. You will collaborate with both Sales users and technical and analytical teams. Your expertise will drive the success of our data initiatives, ensuring that data products meet customer needs and enable a variety of high priority analytics initiatives. If you have strong background in data engineering, quality assurance, and a passion for innovation, we invite you to join our team and make a significant impact.

Job Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with Quant Research and Technology on Sales data products design and strategy, delivering business value with data.
• Automate data quality monitoring and data lineage registration.
• Develop proof-of-concept data product prototypes.
• Translate data consumer requirements into actionable development tasks.
• Manage releases and track development timelines and milestones.
• Prioritize feature requests and drive resolution of data quality issues.
• Prioritize technology data tooling deliveries supporting Markets Sales.
• Help data consumers to use data products effectively.
• Promote reuse of data products.
• Ensure integration of Markets Sales data with other data and analytics platforms in the firm.
• Integrate strategic data management tools into producer and consumer workflows.
• Develop high-quality production code and reviews and debug code written by others.
• Execute creative data architecture solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions and break down technical problems.
• Lead data architecture communities of practice to drive awareness and use of modern data architecture technologies.
• Add to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Excellent Python programming skills.
• Solid programming skills in data query languages and experience with relational and NoSQL databases.
• Proven experience as a Data Engineer or similar role.
• Experience with data / technology projects in the Financial Services sector.
• Proficiency in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Ability to build and optimize data sets and 'big data' pipelines.
• Strong communication skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work collaboratively across multiple teams within the firm.
• Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to recommend the best data architecture solutions for the future state architecture.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities And Skills

• Understanding of financial markets data and experience with financial data platforms.
• Prior experience with data products design.
• Prior experience with Sell-side analytics platforms (Athena, SecDB, etc.).

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

J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.