Data Product & Governance Lead Vice President

Next Frontier Capital; Bournemouth; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a senior Data Governance & Data Product Lead to own the ORDG data products and their lifecycle, ensuring canonical schemas, KDEs and taxonomy are defined, governed, and consumable by AI services and reporting across the firm.

You will collaborate with Technology, Data Science and Product teams, lead the governance forum, and drive adoption of standards while maintaining pace across multiple workstreams.

Qualifications

• Extensive leadership in data governance, data product management or data stewardship in regulated financial services.
• Deep expertise in data-product design: canonical models, data contracts, KDEs, taxonomy, lineage and quality.
• Experience running governance forums or steward communities, setting standards and driving adoption.
• Strong collaboration with Technology, Data Science and Product to translate governance into technical outcomes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, capable of briefing senior management.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams while maintaining delivery pace.
• Familiarity with AI tools (LLM Suite, Github Co-pilot, Claude) and safe AI data products.
• Experience owning a policy/regulatory data domain and transforming it into a governed data product.
• Knowledge of Data Mesh, semantic layers, canonical modelling and modern data catalog/ lineage tools.
• Familiarity with JPMorganChase data standards, CDAO frameworks and governance models.
• Experience in controlled environments with governance, audits and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Own the definition of ORDG’s trusted data products — canonical schema, KDEs, taxonomy, lineage, ownership and certification — and evolve them in response to regulatory, business and platform change.
• Run the ORDG data governance forum: prioritise change requests, chair review and sign-off of new or amended data products, and manage the lifecycle from design through retention or destruction.
• Establish and enforce quality gates and controls across the data foundation — completeness, conformance, KDE integrity, lineage traceability, and normativity separation — partnering with the Data Quality & Controls function on measurement and remediation.
• Partner with Technology to translate governance intent into implemented physical data models, contracts and consumption interfaces across the governed data-product estate.
• Coordinate with Product Owners and the Data & AI Execution Lead to ensure new AI services and product capabilities consume governed data products — preventing local rebuilds, embedded copies and capability sprawl.
• Act as the accountable authority for data-product releases; approve versioning, publication and change communications across ORDG and consuming platforms.
• Support the Executive Data Owner in defining the roadmap, prioritisation and success metrics for the Define & Govern Data Products workstream, and represent it in cross-workstream planning.
• Partner with RM&C, ODG and LRCM stakeholders to align on data definitions, standards and consumption patterns, and to resolve cross-domain governance issues.
• Contribute to ORDG’s external assurance and regulatory posture by ensuring the data foundation is auditable and defensible at any point in time.
• Manage a Data Modeler / Data Analyst and partner closely with Data Product Domain SMEs and adjacent roles as the ORDG Data, Analytics & AI capability scales.
• Represent ORDG in firmwide data governance forums, contributing to and drawing from broader JPMorganChase data standards, taxonomies and controls.

Job description

You help JPMorganChase grow its business in a responsible way by anticipating new and emerging risks and using your expert judgement to solve real-world challenges that impact our company, customers and communities. Our culture in Risk Management and Compliance is all about thinking outside the box, challenging the status quo and striving to be best-in-class.

As the Data Governance & Data Product Lead in the Office of Regulation and Document Governance (ORDG), you will own the foundation layer of ORDG’s Data, Analytics & AI capability — turning policy content into governed, machine-readable data products that AI services, controls and reporting all consume. Reporting to ORDG’s Executive Data Owner, you will define and run the data-product operating model: standards, taxonomy, ownership, quality gates, certification, and lifecycle. Partnering with Technology, Data Science, Product Owners and the wider RM&C community, you will ensure the governed data foundation is trusted, reusable and defensible — so that every downstream AI capability, dashboard and control across FPSP, DOGMA, LRCM and the RM&C Bulletin Tool operates on the same authoritative source of truth.

Job responsibilities

• Own the definition of ORDG’s trusted data products — canonical schema, Key Data Elements (KDEs), taxonomy, lineage, ownership and certification — and evolve them in response to regulatory, business and platform change.
• Run the ORDG data governance forum: prioritise change requests, chair review and sign-off of new or amended data products, and manage the lifecycle from design through retention or destruction.
• Establish and enforce quality gates and controls across the data foundation — completeness, conformance, KDE integrity, lineage traceability, and normativity separation — partnering with the Data Quality & Controls function on measurement and remediation.
• Partner with Technology to translate governance intent into implemented physical data models, contracts and consumption interfaces across the governed data-product estate.
• Coordinate with Product Owners and the Data & AI Execution Lead to ensure new AI services and product capabilities consume governed data products — preventing local rebuilds, embedded copies and capability sprawl.
• Act as the accountable authority for data-product releases; approve versioning, publication and change communications across ORDG and consuming platforms.
• Support the Executive Data Owner in defining the roadmap, prioritisation and success metrics for the Define & Govern Data Products workstream, and represent it in cross-workstream planning.
• Partner with RM&C, ODG and LRCM stakeholders to align on data definitions, standards and consumption patterns, and to resolve cross-domain governance issues.
• Contribute to ORDG’s external assurance and regulatory posture by ensuring the data foundation is auditable and defensible at any point in time.
• Manage a Data Modeler / Data Analyst and partner closely with Data Product Domain SMEs and adjacent roles as the ORDG Data, Analytics & AI capability scales.
• Represent ORDG in firmwide data governance forums, contributing to and drawing from broader JPMorganChase data standards, taxonomies and controls.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Substantial experience leading data governance, data product management or data stewardship in a regulated financial-services environment.
• Deep expertise in data-product design principles — canonical models, data contracts, Key Data Elements, taxonomy management, lineage and quality frameworks.
• Demonstrated experience running a governance forum or steward community — setting standards, chairing decisions, managing lifecycle events and driving adoption across delivery teams.
• Strong partnering track record with Technology, Data Science and Product functions; able to translate governance requirements into implementable technical outcomes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to structure decisions and status for senior management, and to make governance choices legible to non-specialists.
• Ability to hold quality and control discipline across multiple concurrent workstreams while retaining pace of delivery.
• Familiarity with AI tools, inclusive of LLM Suite, Github Co-pilot, Claude, and understanding of how governed data products underpin safe AI consumption.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Prior experience owning a policy, regulatory or control-related data domain — including obligations, controls, standards or procedure content — and its transformation into a governed data product.
• Working knowledge of Data Mesh, semantic layers, canonical modelling approaches and modern data-catalog / lineage tooling.
• Familiarity with JPMorganChase data standards, CDAO frameworks and firmwide governance operating models.
• Experience operating in a controlled environment with governance processes, audit interactions and documentation rigor.

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.

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. As part of Risk Management and Compliance, you are at the center of keeping the firm strong and resilient.