Data Owner Lead - Data Management Operations - Vice President

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Jersey City, NJ +1 · Corporate Sector

This role focuses on data management and governance within an enterprise setting, emphasizing the delivery of data products and leveraging AI/ML tooling to automate governance activities. The primary focus is on data preparation and curation for analytical and ML use cases, rather than direct AI model development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Implement strategic plans to deliver data solutions and data products that support business operations and strategic objectives.
  2. Manage project execution, mitigating risks and inefficiencies.
  3. Collaborate with partners to document and classify critical data with metadata. Ensure metadata is actionable and supports discovery and reuse (business definitions, technical metadata, lineage, quality rules/thresholds, and product documentation).
  4. Provide subject matter expertise on data content and usage within the business and associated product areas.
  5. Develop relationships with data providers and consumers across multiple functions. Engage broad-based consumer populations (operations, reporting, analytics, data science) to understand usage patterns and improve usability of curated datasets and data products.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or equivalent professional experience.
  • Five years of experience in data management, data governance, or risk management/analytics.
  • Demonstrated experience delivering or partnering closely on delivery of data products or curated datasets that integrate multiple sources for enterprise consumption.
  • Proven leadership track record with the ability to manage delivery timelines.
  • In-depth understanding of data management principles and governance frameworks.
  • Working knowledge of the data development lifecycle and familiarity with the operating model for data products (build, release, run, change).
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Strong communication skills for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Strong leadership skills with experience in managing cross-functional teams.
  • Proven ability to build relationships with key stakeholders and manage large-scale data projects; Ability to translate consumer needs into clear data requirements, acceptance criteria, and measurable outcomes (quality, usability, adoption).

Nice to have

  • Experience with cloud-based data platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
  • Experience with data lake/lakehouse concepts and information architecture practices.
  • Familiarity with advanced analytics, machine learning, or AI applications; Hands-on experience leveraging LLMs for productivity and governance automation (prompt engineering patterns, agent/tooling concepts, evaluation/monitoring of outputs).
  • Knowledge of query or analytical programming languages. (e.g., SQL; Oracle a plus) and comfort partnering with engineering on ingestion/transformation patterns.
  • Experience in leading digital transformation initiatives leveraging data.
  • Experience in data product management; Experience establishing operating processes for data products (documentation standards, quality SLAs/SLOs, monitoring/alerting, and lifecycle/deprecatio

What the JD emphasized

  • data management
  • data governance
  • data products
  • enterprise consumption
  • data lifecycle
  • data issues
  • AI/ML and LLM tooling