HR/EX CDAO Vice President Semantic Architecture & Context Engineering

J.P. Morgan; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary package

Health care coverage

Retirement savings plan

Tuition reimbursement

Mental health support

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a visionary Semantic Architecture & Context Engineering Lead to define the enterprise semantic foundation across data, analytics, AI, and agentic ecosystems. You will drive cross‑functional collaboration with data product managers, AI engineers, and domain experts to ensure consistent, governed semantic structures.

The role emphasizes experimentation, contextual patterns, and scalable patterns for business concepts, metrics, definitions, and retrieval strategies,

Qualifications

• Experience in semantic architecture and data context modeling across enterprise data products.
• Ability to translate business concepts into machine-readable representations with governance.
• Strong background in GenAI architectures, RAG, and AI-assisted semantic workflows.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise semantic framework for data, analytics, AI, and agentic solutions.
• Lead context engineering for GenAI, including system instructions, metadata, and retrieval context.
• Partner with data product teams to embed semantic contracts across domains.
• Design experiments and validation to improve answer accuracy and grounding.
• Establish lifecycle governance for semantic assets and versioning.

Skills

Semantic architecture

Data architecture

Knowledge engineering

Ontology development

AI/ML engineering

Information architecture

Tools

Databricks Unity Catalog

Delta Lake

Databricks SQL

MLflow

Vector Search

Genie

Neo4j/Knowledge graphs

Job description

We are seeking a Semantic Architecture & Context Engineering Lead to help define and scale the semantic foundation underpinning our enterprise data, analytics, AI, and agentic ecosystem. As organizations increasingly consume data through natural-language interfaces, generative AI, intelligent agents, predictive models, and automated workflows, the quality of the underlying context becomes as important as the quality of the underlying data. Business concepts, metrics, relationships, definitions, metadata, instructions, retrieval strategies, and decision rules must be structured in ways that are consistent, machine-readable, reusable, governed, and optimized for AI consumption. This role will establish the practices, standards, and reusable patterns through which business and data context is represented across our data products, analytical models, GenAI solutions, and agent architectures.
The individual will work horizontally across Data, Analytics, AI, Product, Engineering, Architecture, and business domain teams. They will partner closely with functional owners—including data product managers, AI engineers, data scientists, architects, and business subject-matter experts—to ensure semantic and contextual structures are designed consistently while remaining appropriate to individual domains and use cases. Critically, this is not solely a governance or documentation role. The Semantic Architecture & Context Engineering Lead will establish an experimental discipline around context, using structured evaluation, A/B testing, production telemetry, and AI-assisted techniques to continuously improve the accuracy, precision, reliability, performance, and usability of AI-enabled solutions.

Job Responsibilities

• Enterprise Semantic & Context Architecture. Define the enterprise framework for representing business meaning and context across data, analytics, AI, and agentic solutions. Establish standards and reusable patterns for semantic models, business concepts, metrics, entities, relationships, taxonomies, metadata, definitions, contextual instructions, and knowledge structures. Develop a common approach for translating human business concepts into machine-readable and AI-consumable representations. Define principles for semantic interoperability across data products and domains, minimizing conflicting definitions, redundant logic, and fragmented representations of common enterprise concepts. Establish semantic and context architecture patterns that can be applied across structured, semi-structured, and unstructured information.
• AI & Agent Context Engineering - Define best practices for structuring the context provided to GenAI and agentic solutions, including system instructions, business rules, semantic metadata, examples, retrieval context, tool descriptions, entity relationships, and domain knowledge. Partner with AI engineering and architecture teams to design context patterns for RAG, natural-language-to-data, reasoning, agent tool use, memory, workflow orchestration, and agent-to-agent interaction. Develop reusable context architectures for solutions such as Databricks Genie spaces/rooms, enterprise AI assistants, analytical agents, and domain-specific agents. Ensure context structures clearly establish authoritative definitions, permitted sources, relationships, hierarchies, temporal logic, calculation rules, and other constraints required for reliable AI reasoning. Help establish standards for context isolation, inheritance, reuse, versioning, and lifecycle management across an expanding portfolio of AI solutions.
• Data Product Semantics - Partner with data product managers and domain teams to strengthen the semantic layer of enterprise data products. Establish standards for business definitions, logical models, physical-to-logical mappings, metrics, dimensions, entity relationships, metadata, lineage, data-quality expectations, and consumption guidance. Ensure data products contain sufficient semantic context for use by human analysts, BI platforms, machine-learning models, GenAI applications, and autonomous agents. Promote reusable semantic contracts that allow downstream solutions to interpret data consistently without recreating business logic independently. Identify common concepts and relationships that should be standardized across multiple data domains while preserving appropriate domain ownership.
• Context Experimentation & Evaluation - Establish a systematic testing framework for semantic and contextual design. Design and lead experiments to evaluate alternative context structures, instructions, examples, semantic representations, retrieval strategies.
  Use A/B testing, offline evaluation, golden question sets, adversarial testing, production telemetry, and other methods to measure changes in: - answer accuracy, precision and recall, grounding and source fidelity etc
• Semantic Lifecycle & Governance - Establish lifecycle practices for creating, reviewing, approving, versioning, testing, deploying, monitoring, and retiring semantic and contextual assets. Define ownership models distinguishing enterprise standards from domain-level business ownership. Ensure semantic assets can be traced to authoritative business definitions and trusted data sources.
• AI-Enabled Semantic Engineering - Identify opportunities to embed AI throughout the semantic lifecycle. Use AI-assisted techniques to accelerate metadata generation, concept extraction, taxonomy development, relationship identification, mapping, documentation, semantic validation, and quality assurance.

• Partnership & Adoption - Act as a subject-matter expert and internal advisor on semantic architecture and context engineering. Partner with Data Product, Data Engineering, AI/ML, Business Intelligence, Product, Design, Architecture, and business teams to embed semantic best practices into delivery.
  Conduct design reviews and working sessions for priority data and AI solutions. Develop playbooks, templates, education, and reusable implementation patterns that allow teams to adopt semantic practices without requiring centralized execution.
  Build a community of practice across data and AI teams to continuously advance enterprise capabilities. Translate highly technical semantic concepts into clear implications for product owners, executives, and business stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• Significant experience in one or more of the following areas: semantic architecture, data architecture, knowledge engineering, ontology development, data product management, AI/ML engineering, information architecture, or advanced analytics.
• Strong understanding of enterprise data architecture, including logical and physical data models, metadata, data products, metrics, dimensions, lineage, and data governance.
• Demonstrated understanding of modern GenAI architectures, including LLMs, RAG, vector retrieval, natural-language-to-data solutions, prompt/context engineering, and agentic architectures.
• Experience translating complex business concepts and domain knowledge into structured technical representations.
• Strong analytical orientation with experience designing experiments, evaluations, or other quantitative methods for assessing solution performance.
• Ability to operate effectively across business, product, data, engineering, and architecture organizations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to influence without direct ownership of participating teams. Ability to balance enterprise standardization with pragmatic delivery and domain-specific requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Databricks, including Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, Databricks SQL, MLflow, Vector Search, and/or Genie.
• Experience with enterprise semantic layers, metric stores, business glossaries, metadata platforms, data catalogs, or ontology-management technologies.
• Familiarity with knowledge graphs and semantic technologies such as RDF, OWL, SKOS, SHACL, SPARQL, Neo4j, or similar technologies.
• Experience with RAG, GraphRAG, embedding models, vector databases, semantic search, and knowledge-grounded AI systems.
• Familiarity with AI evaluation frameworks, including golden datasets, automated evaluators, LLM-as-judge techniques, model observability, or production AI monitoring.
• Experience operating in a highly governed or regulated enterprise environment.
• Financial services and/or Human Resources domain experience is advantageous but not required.

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

Lead HR EX CDAO Vice President Semantic Architecture and Context Engineering