Lead Data Engineer - AI-Driven Pipelines & Governance

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking a Lead Data Engineer in Plano, TX to design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines and architectures. You will drive data governance, performance, and mentor engineers while collaborating with stakeholders across business analytics and technology.

You will design batch and streaming pipelines, implement AI-assisted data workflows, and ensure secure, auditable data solutions that align with regulatory requirements and enterprise standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• 5+ years of data engineering with AWS, Data Lake, and Snowflake expertise.
• Hands-on with data lake/warehousing tech (Redshift, BigQuery, Snowflake, Spark, Flink, Trino).
• Apply Agile methodologies and backlog prioritization for continuous improvement.
• Strong SQL skills and experience with ETL tools.
• Experience using enterprise AI capabilities to support data engineering workflows with strong validation and data handling.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, maintain and optimize scalable batch and streaming data pipelines.
• Develop and operate workflow orchestration to schedule, monitor, and manage data movement.
• Translate business requirements into data lake/warehouse solutions.
• Use AI capabilities to accelerate data pipeline analysis and documentation.
• Apply AI-assisted practices to strengthen SDLC quality and ensure traceability.
• Build governance for data modeling, cataloging, access control.
• Mentor team members and lead technical direction through standards and reviews.
• Stay up-to-date with AWS Data Lake, Snowflake, and related tech.
• Perform advanced quantitative analysis of large datasets to identify trends.
• Manage data sharing and ecosystem features.

Skills

Data engineering

AWS

Data lake

Snowflake

SQL

ETL

Agile

Mentoring

Data governance

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field

Tools

Redshift

BigQuery

Spark

Flink

Trino

Kafka

Pub/Sub

Airflow

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking a Lead Data Engineer in Plano, TX to design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines and architectures. You will drive data governance, performance, and mentor engineers while collaborating with stakeholders across business analytics and technology.

You will design batch and streaming pipelines, implement AI-assisted data workflows, and ensure secure, auditable data solutions that align with regulatory requirements and enterprise standards.