Executive Director, Applied AI Platform Engineering

JP Morgan Chase; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 260,000 - 380,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking an Executive Director, Applied AI Engineering (Data Platform) to own the strategy and scale production-grade AI capabilities on our Databricks-based data platform on AWS. You will lead design, delivery, and governance across data modeling, pipelines, and self-serve access, partnering with Information Architecture, Data Engineering, Data Governance, and business stakeholders.

As a senior leader, you will hire and grow a high-performing engineering team, set standards for

Qualifications

• 10+ years software engineering with 5+ years leading technologists.
• 10+ years leading engineering teams and roadmaps for platform capabilities.
• Hands-on Databricks expertise (Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, Spark, SQL Warehouses).
• Strong LLM application architecture skills (RAG, tools, agents, orchestration).
• Experience building production AI systems with testing, observability, and resiliency.

Responsibilities

• Own the Applied AI roadmap and translate business needs into platform capabilities.
• Scale agent workflows for modeling, pipeline creation, data quality, and classification.
• Build secure integration layer with audit trails and access controls.
• Set standards for agent use of Databricks and policy controls.
• Ensure AI pipelines are production-ready with performance and monitoring.
• Implement human review and quality gates for traceability.
• Deliver across workstreams and communicate risks to senior leaders.
• Hire and grow a high-performing engineering team.
• Govern agentic AI-enabled engineering and SDLC automation with guardrails.

Skills

Databricks

LLM architecture

AI systems

Data governance

Audit readiness

Tools

Unity Catalog

Delta Lake

Spark

SQL Warehouses

Job description

JPMorganChase is seeking an Executive Director, Applied AI Engineering (Data Platform) to own the strategy and scale production-grade AI capabilities on our Databricks-based data platform on AWS. You will lead design, delivery, and governance across data modeling, pipelines, and self-serve access, partnering with Information Architecture, Data Engineering, Data Governance, and business stakeholders.

As a senior leader, you will hire and grow a high-performing engineering team, set standards for