Executive Director Data Management Architecture - Employee platforms

JPMorganChase; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase seeks an Executive Director Data Management Architecture to lead the architectural vision for a large-scale employee data platform. The role involves designing ingestion, refinement, and access solutions, mentoring a team of architects and engineers, and partnering with governance and product teams to ensure scalable, secure data delivery across the enterprise.

You will drive multi-domain data modeling, define reference patterns, and establish data quality and operational controls

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on data architecture concepts and 10+ years of applied experience; 5+ years leading technologists within your domain.
• Significant experience designing and delivering large-scale data platforms including ingestion, refinement, and serving layers.
• Experience with transactional systems, real-time streaming, and event-driven architectures for reliability and scalability.
• Proven ability to design extensible, modular, and evolvable platforms with clear interfaces and backward-compatible changes.
• Strong data modeling skills across conceptual, logical, and physical layers; emphasis on interoperability.
• Experience driving data governance, metadata, lineage, ownership, and quality management.
• Strong stakeholder management with the ability to translate business needs into roadmaps.
• Excellent written and verbal communication for technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Define target-state architecture for employee data ingestion, refinement, storage, and access with scale and maintainability.
• Establish architectural principles and reference patterns for modular and evolvable platforms.
• Design ingestion and integration patterns for batch and streaming systems with schema evolution and fault tolerance.
• Architect refinement pipelines producing trusted curated datasets and standard entities/events.
• Lead integration of transactional, batch, and real-time data movement with low latency and idempotent processing.
• Guide data modeling across domains and ensure consistent metadata and documentation.
• Define controls for data quality, lineage, monitoring, and runbooks; support platform operations.
• Collaborate with governance, product, and control stakeholders to ensure ownership and change management.
• Ensure responsible handling of personal information and alignment with firm data risk expectations.
• Lead and mentor data architects and engineers; provide reviews and hands-on guidance.

Skills

Data architecture leadership

Data modeling

Stakeholder management

Architectural design

Communication

ETL ingestion/refinement

Mentoring

Multi-domain architecture

Strategic thinking

Team leadership

Education

Data architecture certification

Job description

Job Description

Join one of the world's most influential financial institutions and lead the architectural vision for a critical enterprise data platform. At JPMorganChase, we invest in bold thinkers who can translate complex business challenges into elegant, scalable solutions — and this role is your opportunity to do exactly that. As a Director of Data Architecture, you will shape the future of how employee data is ingested, refined, and delivered at scale, while mentoring and leading a team of talented architects and engineers.

Job Description

Join one of the world's most influential financial institutions and lead the architectural vision for a critical enterprise data platform. At JPMorganChase, we invest in bold thinkers who can translate complex business challenges into elegant, scalable solutions — and this role is your opportunity to do exactly that. As a Director of Data Architecture, you will shape the future of how employee data is ingested, refined, and delivered at scale, while mentoring and leading a team of talented architects and engineers.

As a Executive Director Data Management Architecture at JPMorganChase within the Employee Platforms team, you will design and deliver large-scale employee data ingestion, refinement, and access platforms that enable multiple downstream consumption patterns across internal consumers. You will bring strategic and hands‑on architectural leadership to a complex, multi‑domain environment — balancing technical rigor with business pragmatism to build platforms that are extensible, modular, and built to evolve. Your work will directly support the firm's ability to make trusted, high‑quality employee data available to analytics, operational, and application consumers across the enterprise.

Job Responsibilities

• Define target‑state architecture for employee data ingestion, refinement, storage, and access — ensuring scale, reliability, performance, and long‑term maintainability across domains and platforms
• Establish architectural principles and reference patterns that promote modularity, loose coupling, reusability, and evolvability, enabling the platform to adapt as business requirements and technology capabilities change
• Design ingestion and integration patterns for multiple upstream employee platform systems, including batch and streaming approaches, schema evolution, resilient integration, and fault tolerance
• Architect refinement pipelines that produce trusted, reusable curated datasets and standardized entities and events to support a broad range of downstream use cases
• Design and support architectures that integrate transactional systems, batch pipelines, and real‑time event streaming — including patterns for low‑latency data movement, change data capture, and idempotent processing
• Lead conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling for key employee data domains; drive consistent definitions, metadata standards, and documentation to enable discoverability and reuse
• Define architectural controls for data quality, lineage, platform monitoring, and operational support — including service‑level objectives, incident patterns, and runbooks
• Partner with data product, governance, and control stakeholders to implement architecture that supports ownership, definition consistency, controlled change management, and quality management across domains
• Ensure platform designs support responsible handling of personal information and align to firm data risk expectations through close partnership with appropriate stakeholders
• Lead and mentor data architects and engineers, providing design reviews, reference implementations, and hands‑on guidance; collaborate with internal stakeholders on roadmap planning and delivery execution

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Formal training or certification on data architecture concepts and 10+ years applied experience. In addition, 5+ years of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise
• Significant experience designing and delivering large‑scale data platforms, including ingestion, transformation and refinement, and access and serving layers
• Demonstrated experience supporting transactional systems and real‑time streaming and event‑driven architectures, including patterns for reliability, consistency, and scalability
• Proven ability to design platforms that are extensible, modular, and evolvable — including component‑based architecture, reusable frameworks, well‑defined interfaces and contracts, and backward‑compatible change patterns
• Strong experience with data modeling (conceptual, logical, and physical), schema and versioning strategy, and designing for interoperability across domains
• Experience implementing architecture that supports data governance in a multi‑domain enterprise — including metadata, lineage, ownership and stewardship alignment, change control, and quality management
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to translate business needs into technical architecture and platform roadmaps
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex architectural concepts clearly to both technical and non‑technical audiences

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Experience with human resources or employee data domains, or internal enterprise platforms managing sensitive employee information
• Experience with streaming architectures and event‑driven integration patterns at enterprise scale
• Experience with platform observability, data quality tooling, and operational support models for data pipelines
• Familiarity with privacy‑by‑design principles and risk‑aware delivery practices in regulated or enterprise 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.