Lead Technical Program Manager

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · LONDON, LONDON, United Kingdom · Corporate Sector

Lead Technical Program Manager for the Chief Data & Analytics Office (CDAO) at JPMorgan Chase, responsible for steering complex, cross-functional technology programs that integrate innovative solutions and drive impact across global operations. This role involves managing program execution, facilitating agile ceremonies, overseeing risks, engaging stakeholders, guiding technology selection, and partnering with Product to drive business outcomes, with a focus on data platforms and enterprise-scale implementations.

What you'd actually do

  1. Create and maintain detailed project plans, timelines, and delivery schedules for assigned programs
  2. Manage day-to-day program execution using JIRA, Confluence, and other project management tools, ensuring accurate tracking of user stories, epics, and sprint progress
  3. Facilitate agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily standups, retrospectives, and backlog grooming, with engineering teams
  4. Maintain comprehensive program documentation, including status reports, risk registers, RAID logs, and dependency matrices
  5. Oversee engineering risks, issues, and dependencies across assigned programs

Skills

Required

  • Technical program management
  • Agile delivery tools (JIRA, Confluence)
  • Project management tools (e.g., MS Project)
  • Technical solutioning
  • Vendor product evaluation
  • Vendor management
  • Solution implementation
  • Analytical reasoning
  • Critical thinking
  • Problem-solving
  • Change management
  • Dependency management
  • Scope control
  • Stakeholder management
  • Data platform architectures (data lakes, data warehouses, Lakehouse)
  • Distributed computing frameworks
  • Cloud-native data platforms (Databricks, Snowflake)
  • AWS data analytics services (Redshift, EMR, Glue, Athena, Kinesis, Lake Formation, MSK, S3)
  • Data governance
  • Data security
  • Compliance requirements

Nice to have

  • Steering multi-faceted technology programs
  • Integrating innovative solutions
  • Driving impact across global operations
  • Accelerating data and analytics journey
  • Ensuring data quality, integrity, and security
  • Leveraging data for insights and decision-making
  • Developing new products
  • Improving productivity
  • Enhancing risk management
  • Leading complex, cross-functional technology programs
  • Navigating ambiguity
  • Driving change
  • Managing resources
  • Managing budgets
  • Managing cross-functional teams
  • Delivering innovative solutions aligned to strategic goals
  • Fostering productive stakeholder relationships
  • Ensuring alignment
  • Effective risk management
  • Contributing to new policies and processes
  • Shaping technology landscape
  • User stories, epics, and sprint progress tracking
  • Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, daily standups, retrospectives, backlog grooming)
  • Program documentation (status reports, risk registers, RAID logs, dependency matrices)
  • Continuous improvement
  • Process optimization
  • Best practices
  • Emerging technologies
  • Partnering with Product
  • Driving business outcomes
  • Preparing and delivering status updates and presentations
  • Communicating progress, risks, and blockers
  • Performance optimization
  • Cost management
  • Scalability
  • Operational excellence
  • Architecting end-to-end data solutions
  • Multi-cloud and hybrid data environments

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years of experience (or equivalent expertise) in technical program management, leading complex technology initiatives in large organizations
  • Hands-on experience with agile delivery tools (JIRA, Confluence) and planning tools (e.g., MS Project), with proven ability to maintain accurate program artifacts and metrics
  • Demonstrated proficiency in technical solutioning, vendor product evaluation, vendor management, and solution implementation
  • Strong analytical reasoning skills, applying critical thinking and problem-solving techniques to break down business, technical, and operational objectives
  • Proven ability to lead through change, manage dependencies, and control scope in high-pressure, shifting environments
  • Strong stakeholder management skills, building productive relationships and driving outcomes aligned with firm objectives
  • Understanding of data platform trade-offs, including performance optimization, cost management, scalability, and operational excellence
  • Deep technical understanding of modern data platform architectures, including data lakes, data warehouses, Lakehouse architectures, and distributed computing frameworks
  • Experience with enterprise-scale implementations of cloud-native data platforms such as Databricks and Snowflake
  • Good understanding of AWS data analytics services, including Redshift, EMR, Glue, Athena, Kinesis, Lake Formation, MSK, and S3 data lake patterns, with demonstrated experience architecting end-to-end data solutions
  • Experience navigating complex data governance, security, and compliance requirements across multi-cloud and hybrid data environments at enterprise scale