Senior Lead Data Architect – Enterprise Data Modeling & AI

Next Frontier Capital; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Senior Lead Data Architect to shape data structures and trusted definitions across products serving employee experiences. You will lead the domain’s modelling strategy across transactional, analytical, streaming, and AI-driven consumption patterns, ensuring performance, clarity, and auditability.

You will provide technical direction, mentor teams, and collaborate on governance and data contracts to enable enterprise AI capabilities with strong security and resiliency.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of data architecture and modelling experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end data modelling strategy across domains.
• Design models for OLTP 3NF, OLAP, and event schemas.
• Define semantic foundations and data dictionaries.
• Govern schema evolution with clear contracts and lineage.
• Represent data architecture in governance forums.
• Mentor engineers, contractors, and vendors on modelling best practices.
• Develop secure, high-quality DDL and transformation logic.
• Drive modelling decisions impacting product design and analytics.
• Leverage AI capabilities for modelling analysis while ensuring security.

Skills

Data modelling

Domain modelling

AI/ML data workflows

Data governance

Schema evolution

Mentorship

Production systems

Architecture fundamentals

Education

Data architecture certification

Tools

Databricks Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

Medallion architecture

Job description

JPMorganChase is seeking a Senior Lead Data Architect to shape data structures and trusted definitions across products serving employee experiences. You will lead the domain’s modelling strategy across transactional, analytical, streaming, and AI-driven consumption patterns, ensuring performance, clarity, and auditability.

You will provide technical direction, mentor teams, and collaborate on governance and data contracts to enable enterprise AI capabilities with strong security and resiliency.