Senior Lead Data Architect: Semantic Data & AI Modelling

RiseMe; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in Plano, TX seeks a Senior Lead Data Architect to shape data modelling and semantic foundations across products serving employee experiences. You will drive domain models, ensure auditability and security, and mentor engineering teams.

The role requires designing across OLTP/OLAP patterns, modern lakehouse platforms, and AI-assisted validation, with a focus on governance and change management in production environments.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on data architecture and data modelling concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Experience designing optimized data models across raw/document, OLTP 3NF, OLAP dimensional, and event/schema patterns.
• Strong understanding of entities, relationships, normalization vs denormalization, and schema evolution.
• Experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and production stability.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end data modelling strategy for the domain and align models to product needs.
• Design and optimize models across OLTP, OLAP, and event schemas.
• Define semantic foundations, data dictionary, naming conventions, and attributes abstractions.
• Govern schema evolution and model versioning with clear contracts and lineage.
• Represent data architecture at governance forums and guide tech choices.
• Provide direction and mentorship to engineers, contractors, and vendors.
• Develop and review secure, high-quality DDL and transformation logic.
• Drive modelling decisions impacting product design, analytics, and performance.
• Leverage enterprise AI capabilities to accelerate modelling with validation and security.
• Champion reuse-first, AI-assisted validation and governance in SDLC.

Skills

Data modelling

Data architecture

AI validation

Mentorship

DDL/SQL

Governance

Cloud/data platforms

Production stability

Education

Data architecture training

Tools

Databricks

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

Schema registries

Job description

JPMorganChase in Plano, TX seeks a Senior Lead Data Architect to shape data modelling and semantic foundations across products serving employee experiences. You will drive domain models, ensure auditability and security, and mentor engineering teams.

The role requires designing across OLTP/OLAP patterns, modern lakehouse platforms, and AI-assisted validation, with a focus on governance and change management in production environments.