Senior Data Ingestion Lead

J.P. Morgan; New York (NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Chase is seeking a Senior Associate to drive end-to-end data ingestion for the Rewards Data Ingestion Platform. You will translate complex business and technical needs into actionable ingestion strategies, prioritize backlogs, and deliver clear plans.

Partner with engineering, analytics, and risk stakeholders to onboard data sources, establish data contracts, quality controls, and SLAs. You will define lineage, metadata, and documentation, ensure policy adherence, and drive observability and

Qualifications

• 3+ years delivering data integration initiatives with measurable outcomes.
• Own requirements and execution for data integration projects, backlog prioritization, and release coordination.
• Experience defining data contracts and schemas with versioning and change control.
• Strong data quality management, validation, reconciliation, and issue handling.
• Knowledge of cloud data platforms and distributed processing concepts.
• Familiarity with workflow orchestration and pipeline operations (scheduling, retries, runbooks).
• Clear written and verbal communication to align technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to work in a matrixed environment with multiple partners and priorities.
• Disciplined execution from intake to delivery with attention to detail.
• Understanding of data pipeline observability, instrumentation, and alerting.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end onboarding for source systems supporting rewards use cases from intake to production cutover.
• Define and maintain data contracts, schemas, and change management to prevent downstream issues.
• Create artifacts: requirements, epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and release notes.
• Establish and operate data quality controls, validation rules, reconciliation, and defect triage.
• Define and monitor SLAs/SLOs for data timeliness, completeness, accuracy, and availability.
• Implement lineage, metadata, and documentation for traceability and audit readiness.
• Collaborate with governance, privacy, and risk stakeholders on data classification and access controls.
• Drive observability: pipeline monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and runbooks.
• Prioritize ingestion backlog using value, risk reduction, and dependency-aware sequencing.
• Coordinate cross-functional delivery across product, engineering, analytics, and control partners.

Skills

Data ingestion

Data contracts

Data quality

Observability

Stakeholder management

Kafka

Cloud data platforms

Project leadership

Documentation

Release coordination

Tools

Kafka

Airflow

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP)

Job description

Chase is seeking a Senior Associate to drive end-to-end data ingestion for the Rewards Data Ingestion Platform. You will translate complex business and technical needs into actionable ingestion strategies, prioritize backlogs, and deliver clear plans.

Partner with engineering, analytics, and risk stakeholders to onboard data sources, establish data contracts, quality controls, and SLAs. You will define lineage, metadata, and documentation, ensure policy adherence, and drive observability and