Corporate Sector - Lead Data Engineer

JPMorganChase; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in Houston is seeking an experienced engineer to design and maintain secure data pipelines and platforms for collection, access and analytics. You will build observability dashboards, define governance, and drive reliable operations across engineering, SRE, and security teams.

This role emphasizes automation, cloud-native development on AWS, and incident leadership, with opportunities to shape data protection, recovery testing, and performance improvements in a large financial

Qualifications

• 8+ years of applied engineering experience with production-critical systems.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases; strong observability and governance.
• Proficiency in Python and at least one other language; AWS, CI/CD, and automation.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain role-based observability dashboards for data platforms using Grafana, Dynatrace, and Tableau.
• Define dashboard standards and governance to drive adoption across Engineering, SRE, Operations, and Risk.
• Ensure end-to-end instrumentation and telemetry quality; surface actionable signals and platform KPIs.
• Publish SLIs/SLOs and operational health KPIs and translate into visualizations and reporting for stakeholders.
• Own and improve backup, recovery, archiving, retention, and restore testing.

Skills

Observability

Security governance

System architecture

Technical leadership

CI/CD

Python

Java/Go/C#

AWS

Dynatrace

Grafana

SQL/NoSQL

Automation frameworks

Tools

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab

Job description

Job Description

Join a team that builds secure, scalable data pipelines and platforms for collection, access and analytics.

Job Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain role-based observability dashboards for data platforms and backup/recovery services using Grafana, Dynatrace, and Tableau, providing real‑time and historical visibility into platform health, performance, and risk posture.
• Define and govern dashboard standards and operating model (golden dashboards, drill‑down paths, naming/tagging conventions, ownership, and lifecycle management) to drive consistent adoption across Engineering, SRE, Operations, and Risk.
• Ensure end‑to‑end instrumentation and telemetry quality so dashboards surface actionable signals (availability, latency, throughput, error rates, saturation) and platform KPIs (job success/failure, lag/backlog, data freshness, restore success, retention coverage).
• Establish and publish SLIs/SLOs and operational health KPIs; translate these into Grafana/Dynatrace visualizations and Tableau reporting for executive and governance stakeholders.

Data Architecture, Modeling, And Governance

• Generate and govern data models using firmwide tooling; apply linear algebra, statistical, and geometric algorithms where relevant for modeling and optimization.
• Own and continuously improve the strategy for database backup, recovery, archiving, retention, and restore testing across relational and NoSQL estates.

Platform Engineering & Automation

• Drive an automation‑first, API‑led, self‑service approach that reduces operational toil and improves resilience and customer experience.
• Build cloud‑native capabilities using AWS services, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and modern software engineering practices.

Reliability Engineering (SRE) & Operational Excellence

• Embed SRE principles by defining and tracking reliability metrics (SLIs/SLOs), implementing observability standards, leading incident learning, and maintaining runbooks and recovery playbooks.
• Participate in an on‑call and incident leadership rotation, acting as an escalation point for complex platform and data reliability issues.

Security, Controls, And Recovery Assurance

• Assess and report on access control effectiveness and data asset security posture; partner with security/risk to remediate gaps.
• Design preventive/detective controls, policy guardrails, automated validation, and audit‑ready evidence for platform controls and recovery readiness.
• Deliver telemetry, reporting, and operational intelligence for backup health, compliance, and recovery assurance (coverage, success rates, RPO/RTO attainment).

Technical Leadership & Delivery Management

• Set engineering standards, perform high‑quality code reviews, mentor engineers, and influence stakeholders across product, architecture, security, and SRE.
• Coordinate cross‑team delivery with explicit dependencies, milestones, and measurable outcomes; manage technical debt and balance reliability/security work alongside feature delivery.

Core Engineering Scope (Hands‑on)

• Data architecture & modeling (lakehouse/warehouse patterns, dimensional modeling, data contracts)
• Advanced SQL (performance tuning, warehousing design)
• Pipeline engineering & orchestration (reliable batch workflows, backfills, SLAs)
• Distributed processing (e.g., Spark; partitioning, joins/shuffles, file formats)
• Data quality & testing (automated checks: schema/freshness/volume/business rules)

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Typically 8+ years of applied engineering experience (software engineering or related discipline), including leading production‑critical systems; experience with both relational and NoSQL databases; Strong capability in: observability & operations (monitoring, lineage, incident response/runbooks), security/privacy/governance (least privilege, encryption concepts, auditability), system design & tradeoff analysis (scalability, latency, reliability, cost), and technical leadership (standards, mentoring, stakeholder alignment).
• Proficient across the data lifecycle (ingestion, modeling, storage, serving, governance, operations) with demonstrated experience building distributed systems, platform services, APIs, and automation frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise data protection, backup/recovery, cyber resilience, immutable storage, retention, and recovery testing.
• Advanced AWS experience spanning backup/data protection services, IAM/security, networking fundamentals, observability, and infrastructure automation.
• Hands‑on experience with observability/monitoring platforms such as Dynatrace and Grafana and proficiency in Python and at least one additional language (e.g., Java, Go, C#).
• Experience with CI/CD platforms (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions) and implementing database backup/recovery/archiving strategies with measurable RPO/RTO targets.
• Proficient knowledge of linear algebra, statistical, and geometric algorithms; ability to translate security, control, and regulatory requirements into engineered solutions and operational processes.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Experience with Kubernetes/OpenShift and containerized platform operations.
• Experience with database platforms and cyber‑recovery / isolated recovery solutions.
• Experience building operational analytics (health/compliance dashboards, evidence automation) for regulated financial services environments.

ABOUT US

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission‑based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on‑site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

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.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans

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.