Data Scientist Lead, Vice President

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. seeks a Data Scientist Lead to design, build, and govern scalable data pipelines and trusted metrics that enable enterprise analytics at scale.

You will drive engineering standards, improve observability, and mentor a small team, delivering reusable data products across PDLC and AI initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience delivering production data solutions in a fast-paced engineering environment.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals (system design, data structures, object-oriented programming, testing strategies, and end-to-end development lifecycle).
• Strong understanding of data modeling (conceptual, logical, physical), including dimensional, normalized, and event-based approaches.
• Hands-on experience with Databricks and large-scaled distributed data processing/performance tuning (Spark/PySpark).
• Strong SQL skills and experience with modern transformation tooling (dbt).
• Experience designing and operating orchestration pipelines using Airflow, including backfills, retries, and operational monitoring.
• Demonstrated rigor building and maintaining trusted metrics and keeping them reliable as upstream sources change.
• Demonstrated ability to lead delivery in complex environments with multiple stakeholders and ambiguous requirements.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable data pipelines (batch and/or streaming) with clear SLAs, monitoring, and incident response practices.
• Develop and curate trusted data products (e.g., conformed dimensions, event models, marts) with strong documentation and clear ownership.
• Build and maintain well-defined metrics and feature-ready datasets that enable measurement of AI adoption and productivity outcomes.
• Drive data quality and governance through validations, reconciliations, lineage, access controls, retention, and auditability.
• Develop and operate workflow orchestration (e.g., Apache Airflow) to schedule, monitor, and manage data movement and transformations.
• Model and transform data for analytics using SQL/dbt to support trusted reporting and repeatable measurement.
• Write production-grade Python/PySpark with disciplined testing, performance tuning, and maintainable design.
• Partner with analytics, product, and engineering stakeholders to define requirements and success criteria across inputs spanning finance, PDLC/SDLC tools, and AI tool logs.
• Establish and enforce engineering best practices and continuously improve observability and cost/performance.
• Mentor and develop a team of 2, influencing technical direction through standards, reviews, and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Software engineering fundamentals

Data modeling

SQL proficiency

Leadership experience

Analytics collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Databricks

Airflow

dbt

Spark/PySpark

SQL tooling

Job description

We are seeking aData Scientist Leadto help build and evolve a high-quality measurement data foundation that enables trusted analytics and decision-making at scale. This role focuses on designing and delivering resilient datasets, pipelines, and reusable metrics that support hypothesis-driven analyses and experiments across the product development lifecycle (PDLC).

You’ll be hands-on where needed, drive engineering standards, and help teams move faster by improving reliability, observability, and usability across the data lifecycle-so leaders can clearly see what's driving value, what's creating friction, and what operating-model shifts materially improve outcomes as teams become more agentic.

Job Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalabledata pipelines(batch and/or streaming) with clear SLAs, monitoring, and incident response practices.
• Develop and curate trusteddata products(e.g., conformed dimensions, event models, marts) with strong documentation and clear ownership.
• Build and maintainwell-defined metrics and feature-ready datasetsthat enable measurement of AI adoption and productivity outcomes (e.g., reusable aggregates, cohorting, time-windowed measures), including change control as definitions evolve.
• Drivedata quality and governancethrough validations, reconciliations, lineage, access controls, retention, and auditability aligned to requirements.
• Develop and operate workflow orchestration (e.g.,Apache Airflow) to schedule, monitor, and manage data movement and transformations.
• Model and transform data for analytics usingSQL/dbtto support trusted reporting and repeatable measurement.
• Write production-gradePython/PySparkwith disciplined testing, performance tuning, and maintainable design.
• Partner with analytics, product, and engineering stakeholders to define requirements, success criteria, and consistent interpretation of key measures- particularly where inputs spanfinance business cases,PDLC/SDLC tools, andAI tool logs.
• Establish and enforce engineering best practices (version control, code review, testing strategy, deployment processes, runbooks) and continuously improve observability and cost/performance (freshness, completeness, timeliness, scalability, spend).
• Mentor and develop a team of2, influencing technical direction through standards, reviews, and knowledge sharing.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience delivering production data solutions in a fast-paced engineering environment (actively coding and owning outcomes).
• Strong software engineering fundamentals (system design, data structures, object-oriented programming, testing strategies, and end-to-end development lifecycle).
• Strong understanding of data modeling (conceptual, logical, physical), including dimensional, normalized, and event-based approaches.
• Hands-on experience withDatabricksand large-scaled distributed data processing/performance tuning (Spark/PySpark).
• StrongSQLskills and experience with modern transformation tooling (e.g.,dbt), including building maintainable, testable data codebases.
• Experience designing and operating orchestration pipelines usingAirflow(or equivalent), including backfills, retries, and operational monitoring.
• Demonstrated rigor building and maintaining trustedmetrics(definitions, edge cases, validation/testing, documentation) and keeping them reliable as upstream sources change.
• Demonstrated ability to lead delivery in complex environments with multiple stakeholders and ambiguous requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with modern lakehouse/warehouse patterns and broader cloud data platforms (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake).
• Experience with BI/semantic layers and metrics management practices.
• Exposure to experimentation or hypothesis-driven analytics approaches (e.g., measurement design to support tests, rollouts, and pre/post evaluation); deep causal specialization not required.