Lead Data Engineer – Ab Initio & Data Governance

JPMorganChase; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase, a global financial services leader, seeks a Lead Software Engineer to architect and deliver secure, scalable data solutions that strengthen governance, access, and trust across the enterprise. You will partner with business, analytics, and technology teams while setting high engineering standards and mentoring engineers for reliability at scale.

The role emphasizes building production-grade pipelines, implementing data lake and warehouse strategies, and driving AI-assisted design

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• 5+ years of data engineering experience building and operating production-grade data pipelines in cloud environments.
• Deep expertise with AWS data platforms and data lake architectures, including hands-on experience with Ab Initio.
• Hands-on experience with modern data lake and warehousing technologies (Databricks, Snowflake) and processing engines (Spark, Flink).
• Proficiency in SQL and experience with Oracle Database plus one or more scripting languages (Java, Perl, Unix scripting).

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver scalable batch data pipelines with strong performance, fault tolerance, and end-to-end observability.
• Develop and operate workflow orchestration to schedule, monitor, and manage data movement and transformations.
• Translate complex business requirements into technical solutions aligned to data lake and data warehousing standards.
• Establish governance processes for data modeling, cataloging, ownership, lineage, and access control to improve trust and transparency.
• Optimize large-scale distributed processing workloads through performance tuning and resilient runtime design.
• Mentor engineers through technical reviews, standards, and knowledge sharing.
• Perform advanced quantitative analysis on large datasets to uncover trends and drive data-informed decisions.
• Apply enterprise AI-assisted practices within SDLC/toolchain automation to reduce manual toil while maintaining security and auditability.

Skills

Data engineering

AWS

SQL

Java

Spark

Databricks

Snowflake

Education

Software engineering certification

Tools

Ab Initio

Databricks

Snowflake

Spark

Flink

Oracle

Job description

JPMorganChase, a global financial services leader, seeks a Lead Software Engineer to architect and deliver secure, scalable data solutions that strengthen governance, access, and trust across the enterprise. You will partner with business, analytics, and technology teams while setting high engineering standards and mentoring engineers for reliability at scale.

The role emphasizes building production-grade pipelines, implementing data lake and warehouse strategies, and driving AI-assisted design