Senior Director of Software Engineering - AI & Data

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Columbus, OH +1 · Corporate Sector

Senior Director of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase leading the enterprise data platform strategy, focusing on data engineering, governance, AI enablement, and agent-based workflow automation. The role involves owning the platform roadmap, ensuring security, compliance, and scalability, and enabling teams to leverage trusted data products and responsible AI.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define and drive the enterprise data platform vision and roadmap aligned to business priorities and product strategy
  2. Lead data engineering delivery to build reliable, scalable pipelines and curated data products leveraging Databricks lakehouse capabilities
  3. Establish and evolve a data governance operating model across data quality, lineage, metadata management, stewardship, cataloging, and lifecycle management
  4. Implement and scale fine-grained, policy-based data access controls using Immuta to enable secure and compliant data sharing
  5. Build platform foundations for machine learning experimentation, deployment, and monitoring, and embed responsible AI practices into delivery

Skills

Required

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts
  • 10+ years applied experience
  • 5+ years of experience leading technologists
  • Demonstrated senior leadership experience building and operating enterprise-scale data platforms and data product ecosystems
  • Deep expertise with modern lakehouse and cloud data platform architectures, including Databricks at scale
  • Experience establishing and operating enterprise data governance capabilities, including data quality, lineage, metadata, and stewardship practices
  • Hands-on experience implementing policy-driven data access controls and secure data sharing, including Immuta
  • Experience enabling production machine learning capabilities, including model deployment, monitoring, and governance controls
  • Proven ability to operationalize automated or agent-based workflow patterns in enterprise environments
  • Strong knowledge of data architecture, distributed processing, data modeling, and platform reliability engineering
  • Executive-level communication skills with the ability to influence cross-functional roadmaps and senior stakeholders

Nice to have

  • Experience with Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, and modern operating models such as data mesh and data products
  • Experience in regulated or highly governed environments with complex risk and control requirements
  • Experience leading global, distributed engineering organizations
  • Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field

What the JD emphasized

  • enterprise-scale data platforms
  • enterprise data governance capabilities
  • production machine learning capabilities
  • agent-based workflow patterns
  • regulated or highly governed environments

Other signals

  • enterprise data platform strategy
  • data engineering
  • data governance
  • artificial intelligence enablement
  • agent-based workflow automation
  • responsible AI capabilities
  • machine learning experimentation, deployment, and monitoring