Senior Director of Data Privacy & Software Engineering

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in London is seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering - Data Privacy Engineering Lead to steer the Data Privacy & Governance roadmap and align with global privacy priorities. You will guide privacy-centric initiatives, oversee engineering projects, and report to senior leadership.

The role partners with product teams to deliver business outcomes, drives regulatory compliance, and sets the technical direction for privacy risk management across multi-cloud data platforms.

Qualifications

• Experience leading Data Governance and Data Privacy organizations.
• Strong understanding of global data privacy regulations.
• Ability to manage multiple portfolios and competing priorities.
• Proficiency in technical solutions, vendor product knowledge, and managing vendor relations.
• Knowledge of records retention, legal holds, and defensible disposal across data.
• Proven track record deploying and governing enterprise metadata, catalog, and lineage platforms.
• Practical expertise with data contracts and schema governance.
• Ability to evaluate and drive technical decisions regarding data platform trade-offs.
• Technical understanding of modern data platform architectures including data lakes, warehouses, lakehouse, and distributed computing.
• Experience with cloud-native data platforms such as Databricks and Snowflake.
• Strong knowledge of AWS data analytics services (Redshift, EMR, Glue, Athena, Kinesis, Lake Formation, MSK, S3).

Responsibilities

• Manage the Data Privacy & Governance roadmap, aligning with global privacy strategic priorities and business objectives.
• Lead firmwide privacy initiatives, including consent management, data retention, and cross-border data transfer governance.
• Drive technical direction for Privacy Impact Assessment, overseeing new data privacy technology initiatives and third-party integrations.
• Structure roadmap delivery and operating model across the organization.
• Oversee engineering projects, risks, issues, and dependencies, focusing on privacy risk identification, remediation tracking, and regulatory compliance milestones.
• Develop and maintain privacy metrics, KPIs, and dashboards for executive visibility into privacy posture and compliance status.
• Prepare and deliver comprehensive reports and presentations to C-Level Executives, communicating program status, risks, and achievements.
• Partner with product teams to drive business outcomes and ensure technical programs align with strategic goals.

Skills

Data Governance

Data Privacy

Executive Reporting

Vendor Management

Regulatory Compliance

Cloud Platforms

Data Architecture

PIA Knowledge

Multi-cloud

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

AWS

Job description

JPMorganChase in London is seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering - Data Privacy Engineering Lead to steer the Data Privacy & Governance roadmap and align with global privacy priorities. You will guide privacy-centric initiatives, oversee engineering projects, and report to senior leadership.

The role partners with product teams to deliver business outcomes, drives regulatory compliance, and sets the technical direction for privacy risk management across multi-cloud data platforms.