Data Analytics Engineer - Senior Associate

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Plano, TX +1 · Commercial & Investment Bank

This role focuses on building analytics-ready data models and a semantic layer using SQL, Python, and data modeling best practices in Databricks/Snowflake. The goal is to standardize business metrics, enable self-service reporting, and ensure data quality and consistency for financial analytics within JPMorgan Chase's Commercial and Investment Bank.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead development of analytics data models (dimensional and/or domain-oriented) optimized for reporting, BI, and self-service consumption.
  2. Design and maintain a semantic layer (standardized metrics, dimensions, entities, and business definitions) to ensure consistency across dashboards and analyses.
  3. Translate stakeholder requirements into clear modeling deliverables (entities, grains, metric definitions, acceptance criteria).
  4. Build transformations primarily in SQL, leveraging Python when needed for complex logic, automation, or validation.
  5. Implement and champion data quality controls (tests, reconciliations, anomaly checks) tied to business-critical metrics.

Skills

Required

  • 3+ years of experience as an Analytics Engineer or related role
  • Advanced SQL skills (complex joins, performance tuning, incremental logic)
  • Strong understanding of data modeling (facts/dimensions, grains, conformed dimensions, SCDs, metric design)
  • Demonstrated experience building or operating a semantic layer / metrics framework
  • Comfort working with semi-structured data (JSON) and NoSQL sources and modeling them for analytics
  • Exposure to data governance concepts (RBAC, data classification, lineage, audit requirements)
  • Working experience with Snowflake and/or Databricks in an analytics context
  • Practical Python skills for data workflows (validation, automation, notebooks/scripts)
  • Ability to partner with stakeholders, clarify ambiguous requirements, and drive to measurable outcomes
  • Strong documentation habits and attention to data correctness

Nice to have

  • Experience with testing and documentation
  • Familiarity with BI tooling and semantic consumption patterns (e.g., Tableau/Sigma/Looker concepts)
  • Knowledge of orchestration and observability (Airflow/Dagster/ADF; logging/alerting; SLA mindset)