Senior Director of Software Engineering - Privacy Engineering Lead

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

Job Description

Join the Chief Data & Analytics Office at JPMorganChase and help accelerate our data and analytics journey. You will lead complex, multi-functional technology projects that impact clients, employees, and stakeholders firmwide. Bring your technical fluency and analytical reasoning to drive innovative solutions, manage resources, and foster productive relationships. This is your opportunity to shape the future of our technology landscape and contribute to the development of new policies and processes.

Job Summary:

As a Senior Director of Software Engineering - Data Privacy Engineering Lead in the Chief Data & Analytics Office, you will manage the Data Privacy & Governance roadmap, ensuring alignment with global privacy priorities and business objectives. You will lead privacy-centric initiatives, oversee engineering projects, and drive technical direction for privacy impact assessments and technology integrations. Your role will focus on privacy risk identification, regulatory compliance, and executive-level reporting, partnering with product teams to deliver business outcomes.

Job 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.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Experience leading Data Governance and Data Privacy organizations.
• Strong understanding of global data privacy regulations to inform technical architecture and engineering requirements.
• 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 structured and unstructured 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, including performance, cost, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Technical understanding of modern data platform architectures, including data lakes, data warehouses, lakehouse architectures, and distributed computing frameworks.
• Experience with enterprise-scale implementations of cloud-native data platforms such as Databricks and Snowflake.
• Strong knowledge of AWS data analytics services, including Redshift, EMR, Glue, Athena, Kinesis, Lake Formation, MSK, and S3 data lake patterns.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Experience navigating complex data governance, security, and compliance requirements across multi-cloud and hybrid data environments.
• Ability to deliver executive-level reports and presentations.
• Familiarity with privacy metrics, KPIs, and dashboard development.
• Experience structuring operating models for privacy and governance delivery.
• Demonstrated success in driving business outcomes through technical programs.
• Expertise in architecting end-to-end data solutions in enterprise environments.
• Strong adaptability and analytical reasoning skills.

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.