Forward-Deployed Data Engineer Lead: Data Mesh & Governance

Next Frontier Capital; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

On-site health and wellness centers

Retirement savings plan

Backup childcare

Tuition reimbursement

Mental health support

Financial coaching

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Lead Data Engineer (Forward Deployed) to collaborate with Infrastructure Data Platforms teams in Columbus, OH. You will embed with infrastructure product teams to turn asset and configuration data into trusted data products powering security controls and enterprise analytics.

You will design data integrations, enforce data quality, and define data contracts across domains to reduce risk while improving visibility and lineage for enterprise systems.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on data engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.

Responsibilities

• Embed with infrastructure product teams to discover current-state data sources, ownership, definitions, formats, and quality gaps.
• Design and deliver integrations that publish governed data products into a data mesh ecosystem, ensuring completeness, standardization, and lineage.
• Establish data quality rules and monitoring at the source, driving remediation and preventing recurring issues through root-cause analysis and durable fixes.
• Standardize critical data attributes and definitions across domains to enable reliable downstream consumption, interoperability, and policy enforcement.
• Define and implement data contracts that make producer/consumer expectations explicit and reduce operational risk for dependent teams.
• Reconcile and certify infrastructure asset inventories to close completeness and accuracy gaps that create security and control exposure.
• Partner with product, engineering, and governance stakeholders to align on authoritative sources, stewardship, and decision rights for key infrastructure datasets.
• Maintain strong metadata management practices (cataloging, lineage, and stewardship signals) to support auditability and operational transparency.

Skills

Data modeling

Data pipeline development

Data quality engineering

Python

SQL

Leadership

Tools

Kafka

Hadoop/Spark

Java

Job description

JPMorganChase is seeking a Lead Data Engineer (Forward Deployed) to collaborate with Infrastructure Data Platforms teams in Columbus, OH. You will embed with infrastructure product teams to turn asset and configuration data into trusted data products powering security controls and enterprise analytics.

You will design data integrations, enforce data quality, and define data contracts across domains to reduce risk while improving visibility and lineage for enterprise systems.