JOB DESCRIPTIONJoin our innovative team and shape the future of software development.
As a Principal Data Engineer at JPMorgan Chase, you provide expertise and data engineering excellence as an integral part of an agile team to enhance, build and deliver data collection, storage, access, and analytic solutions in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You leverage your advanced technical capabilities and collaborate with colleagues across the organization to drive best-in-class outcomes across various data pipelines and data architectures to support one or more of the firm’s portfolios.
Job Responsibilities
- Architects hybrid on-prem and public cloud data platform solutions
- Designs and builds end-to-end data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and distribution, supporting both batch and streaming workloads
- Develops and owns data products that are reusable, well-documented, and optimized for analytics, BI, and AI/ML consumers. Implements and manages modern data lake and lakehouse architectures, including Apache Iceberg table formats
- Implements interoperability across data platforms and tools, including Databricks, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, AWS Glue, and Lake Formation
- Establishes and maintains end-to-end data lineage to support observability, impact analysis, and regulatory requirements
- Defines and enforces data quality standards, implementing automated validation and monitoring using frameworks such as Great Expectations
- Partners with governance, risk, and compliance teams to ensure adherence to firmwide data governance, retention, and regulatory policies
- Designs and implements fine-grained data access controls and entitlements, leveraging tools such as Immuta
- Optimizes data platforms for performance, scalability, cost efficiency, and reliability. Collaborates closely with product managers, analytics teams, and platform engineers to align data solutions with business needs
- Provides technical leadership through architecture reviews, code reviews, and design guidance across teams
- Acts on previously identified opportunities to converge physical, IT, and data security architecture to manage access. Assists in analyzing critical trends and insights from visualizations and evaluates and selects data visualization tools across firm
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on Machine Learning concepts and 10+ years applied experience. In addition, 5+ years of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise
- Hands-on experience building and operating batch and streaming data pipelines at scale
- Experience with Apache Iceberg and modern table formats in lakehouse environment
- Strong proficiency with Databricks, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, and AWS data services such as Glue and Lake Formation
- Experience implementing data lineage, data quality, and data observability frameworks
- Proven experience with data governance and entitlement platforms (e.g., Immuta)
- Strong understanding of secure data access patterns in large, regulated environments
- Ability to influence data architecture standards and best practices across multiple teams
- Familiarity w/ sell-side Markets business. Experience applying expertise and new methods to determine solutions for complex technology problems in one or more technical disciplines
- Ability to present and effectively communicate with Senior Leaders and Executives
- Shows a proficient understanding of existing data management systems and continuous learning to understand new data management systems
ABOUT US JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
ABOUT THE TEAMJ.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.
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