Lead Data Engineer – Ab Initio & Governance

JPMorgan Chase; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in Columbus, OH seeks a Lead Software Engineer to design secure, scalable data solutions that govern data and enable trusted insights.

You will mentor engineers, drive technical standards, and partner with analytics, business and technology teams to raise quality and reliability. The role emphasizes AI-assisted tooling and data governance with data lakes and warehousing focus.

Qualifications

• 5+ years applied experience in software engineering.
• 5+ years of data engineering experience building and operating production-grade data pipelines in cloud environments.
• 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 and one or more programming languages (Java, Perl, Unix scripting).
• Experience with Agile delivery practices and leading team ceremonies.

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 with clear operational ownership.
• Translate complex business requirements into technical solutions aligned to data lake and data warehousing standards.
• Establish and maintain 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 to strengthen engineering excellence and consistency.
• Perform advanced quantitative analysis on large datasets to uncover trends and drive data-informed decisions.
• Uses enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate design comprehension and pipeline analysis, validating outputs and handling data securely.
• Applies reuse-first, AI-assisted practices within SDLC/toolchain automation to reduce manual toil while maintaining security and traceability.

Skills

Data engineering

Cloud environments

AWS

Databricks

Snowflake

Spark

Flink

SQL

Java

Scripting

Agile

AI-assisted tooling

Tools

Ab Initio

Databricks

Snowflake

Spark

Flink

Oracle Database

Job description

JPMorganChase in Columbus, OH seeks a Lead Software Engineer to design secure, scalable data solutions that govern data and enable trusted insights.

You will mentor engineers, drive technical standards, and partner with analytics, business and technology teams to raise quality and reliability. The role emphasizes AI-assisted tooling and data governance with data lakes and warehousing focus.