Lead Technical Program Manager - Data Platforms Delivery

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

Lead Technical Program Manager for Data Platforms Delivery at JPMorgan Chase, responsible for steering multi-faceted tech programs, integrating innovative solutions, and accelerating the firm's data and analytics journey. This role involves managing complex, multi-functional technology projects and programs that impact various groups across the firm, including clients and employees. The focus is on leveraging data and AI/ML technologies to develop new products, improve productivity, and enhance risk management. The role requires strong technical fluency, project management skills, stakeholder management, and an understanding of modern data platform architectures and cloud-native services.

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 sessions with engineering teams
  4. Maintain comprehensive program documentation including status reports, risk registers, RAID logs, and dependency matrices
  5. Oversee engineering risks, issues, dependencies for assigned programs

Skills

Required

  • Technical program management
  • Agile project management tools (JIRA, Confluence, MS Project)
  • Technical solutions
  • Vendor product knowledge
  • Vendor relations management
  • Analytical reasoning
  • Critical thinking
  • Problem-solving
  • Stakeholder management
  • Data platform trade-offs (performance optimization, cost management, scalability, operational excellence)
  • Modern data platform architectures (data lakes, data warehouses, lakehouse architectures)
  • Distributed computing frameworks
  • Enterprise-scale 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 tech programs
  • Integrating innovative solutions
  • Leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies
  • Developing new products
  • Improving productivity
  • Enhancing risk management
  • Navigating through ambiguity
  • Driving change
  • Managing resources
  • Managing budgets
  • Managing cross-functional teams
  • Communication
  • Influencing abilities
  • Developing new policies and processes
  • Continuous improvement
  • Process optimization
  • Emerging technologies

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years of experience or equivalent expertise in technical program management
  • Hands-on experience with agile project management tools (JIRA, Confluence, MS Project)
  • Demonstrated proficiency in technical solutions, vendor product knowledge, managing vendor relations, and implementing solutions
  • Strong analytical reasoning skills
  • Proven ability in leading through change, managing dependencies, and controlling change in high-pressure, shifting environments
  • Strong skills in stakeholder management
  • 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