Senior Lead Data Architect

JPMorganChase
Glasgow
3 months ago
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Job Description

If you are excited about shaping the future of technology and driving significant business impact in financial services, we are looking for people just like you. Join our team and help us develop game‑changing, high‑quality solutions. As a Senior Lead Architect at JPMorganChase within the Corporate Sector, you are an integral part of a team that works to develop high‑quality architecture solutions for various software applications and platform products. You drive significant business impact and help shape the target state architecture through your capabilities in multiple architecture domains.


Job Responsibilities

  • Represents a product family of technical governance bodies
  • Develop and maintain enterprise data models, data flow diagrams, and data integration strategies.
  • Establish and enforce data management policies, standards, and best practices. Oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of databases (relational, graphdb, cloud-based).
  • Provides feedback and proposes improvements to architecture governance practices
  • Guides evaluation of current technology and leads evaluation of new technologies using existing standards and frameworks
  • Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
  • Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
  • Drives decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
  • Serves as a function‑wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
  • Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle Influences peers and project decision‑makers to consider the use and application of leading‑edge technologies
  • Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

  • Formal training or certification on data modeling concepts and proficient advanced experience
  • Strong knowledge of data modeling, database design, and data warehousing concepts and Proven experience as a Data Architect, Data Engineer, or similar role.
  • Hands‑on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
  • Advanced in one or more programming language(s), applications, and architecture Advanced knowledge of software architecture, applications, and technical processes with considerable in‑depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
  • Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
  • Practical cloud native experience
  • Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to select or recommend the best solutions for the future state architecture
  • Understanding of data governance, data quality, and metadata management.
  • Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skill

  • Expertise in conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling for complex, large‑scale systems.
  • Proficiency with graph databases (e.g., TigerGraph, Amazon Neptune) and NoSQL solutions (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra)
  • Advanced skills in designing and implementing APIs, especially GraphQL and RESTful services for data access.
  • Mastery of data integration, ETL/ELT processes, and real‑time data streaming (e.g., Kafka, Apache NiFi).
  • Strong background in data governance, data quality, metadata management, and regulatory compliance (GDPR, CCPA).
  • Advanced proficiency in programming languages such as Python, or Java, for data engineering tasks.
  • Awareness of trends in AI/ML, data mesh, data fabric, and modern data architectures.

About Us. J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first‑class business in a first‑class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long‑term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.


We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.


About The Team. Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.


Employment Details

  • Seniority level: Not Applicable
  • Employment type: Full‑time
  • Job function: Engineering and Information Technology


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