Executive Director, AI-Driven Data Platform Engineering

Aumni; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 260,000 - 380,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in the United States seeks an Executive Director, Applied AI Engineering (Data Platform) to lead the design, delivery, and scaling of production-grade AI agent capabilities on our Databricks‑based data platform on AWS.

You will set strategy, guide cross‑functional teams, and ensure governance, security, and reliability while partnering with data governance, engineering, and business stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts.
• 5+ years of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items.
• Experience with production AI-enabled systems and data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the Applied AI roadmap for the data platform, translating business needs into capabilities that reduce manual effort and accelerate data product delivery.
• Architect and scale agent-driven workflows that improve data modeling, pipeline generation, data quality, and data classification with clear production readiness standards.
• Design and oversee a secure tool-integration layer that exposes platform capabilities to agents with controlled access and strong auditability.
• Establish technical standards for agent interaction with Databricks workspaces, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake tables, and policy controls to ensure consistent and secure execution.
• Ensure performance, scalability, reliability, and operational readiness of AI-powered pipelines and tools, including monitoring and incident readiness.
• Build and run a human-in-the-loop review model with validated, versioned, and auditable outputs before production use.
• Lead delivery across multiple concurrent workstreams, aligning cross-functional partners and communicating progress to senior stakeholders.
• Hire, develop, and retain a high-performing team of AI engineers and data platform specialists; foster inclusive culture balancing experimentation with rigor.
• Sets direction and governance for agentic AI-enabled engineering and SDLC automation with guardrails for validation, security, resiliency, traceability.

Skills

Databricks

Unity Catalog

Delta Lake

Apache Spark

SQL Warehouses

RAG

Agent design

Agent orchestration

Governance

Auditing

Stakeholder communication

Education

Software engineering training

Tools

Model Context Protocol

Immuta

Job description

JPMorganChase in the United States seeks an Executive Director, Applied AI Engineering (Data Platform) to lead the design, delivery, and scaling of production-grade AI agent capabilities on our Databricks‑based data platform on AWS.

You will set strategy, guide cross‑functional teams, and ensure governance, security, and reliability while partnering with data governance, engineering, and business stakeholders.