Director of Data Engineering
Data Science
London, UK
Posted on Jul 23, 2026
You are poised to achieve extraordinary success and make a high impact on those around you. Partner with an organization comprised of the industry’s thought leaders and committed to advancing your leadership career.
As a Director of Data Engineering at JPMorganChase within the Macro space you lead a data pipeline and drive impact within teams, technologies, and projects across departments. Utilize your in-depth knowledge of data, analytics, applications, technical processes, and product management to lead multiple complex projects and initiatives, make key decisions for your team, and a drive innovation and solution delivery.
Job responsibilities
- Leads data and process implementation teams to achieve functional technology objectives
- Makes strategic decisions that influence teams’ resources, budget, tactical operations, and the implementation of processes and procedures
- Carries governance accountability for coding decisions, control obligations, and measures of success such as cost of ownership, maintainability, and portfolio operations
- Delivers data pipeline and architecture solutions that can be leveraged across multiple businesses
- Influences peer leaders and senior stakeholders across the business, product, and data technology teams
- Leads reuse-first adoption of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate data pipeline/architecture decisioning and delivery, with human-in-the-loop validation and appropriate handling of sensitive data.
- Establishes governance standards for AI-assisted workflows used in data engineering decision-making and delivery, ensuring traceability/auditability and alignment to resiliency, security, and control obligations.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on data engineering concepts and advanced applied experience
- Experience developing and/or leading cross-functional teams of technologists
- Demonstrated experience leading teams in the safe use of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment for data engineering workflows, including validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity.
- Ability to evaluate AI-assisted recommendations before adoption and set review/approval expectations that align to resiliency, security, and auditability outcomes.
- Experience hiring, developing, and recognizing talent
- Experience leading a product as a Product Owner or Product Manager
- Experience with KDB
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.
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J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.
Drive innovation and data engineering solutions, lead a technical area, and serve as a primary decision maker for your teams
