JPMorgan Chase
Lead Data Engineer
$147K–$190K
Jersey City, NJ · Full-time · Posted Aug 9, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years applied experience
- Education
- Formal training or certification on data engineering concepts
About the job
Leads the design, delivery, and operation of secure, scalable data platforms and pipelines for analytics and business needs.
What you'll do
- Build and optimize batch and streaming pipelines, orchestration workflows, and SQL-based data transformations.
- Operate and improve critical data systems, including reliability, performance, security, and scalability.
- Collaborate with partner teams, mentor junior engineers, and use authorized AI capabilities with validation and appropriate data handling.
What they ask for
- Formal training or certification in data engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience; hands-on professional data engineering coding experience.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience creating conceptual, logical, and physical data models.
- Hands-on experience with cloud-based data platforms, distributed data processing, and modern data warehousing or lakehouse technologies.
- Strong SQL skills; experience with SQL-based transformation tooling and Airflow or similar orchestration tools; experience using authorized AI capabilities with validation and data-sensitivity awareness.
Pay
Jersey City,NJ $147,250.00-$190,000.00 (base salary)
Tools
Apache Airflow, Python/PySpark, SQL, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure
AI focus
Uses enterprise-authorized AI to support data platform and model design analysis, documentation, delivery, and operational routines; validates outputs and follows data sensitivity, security, traceability, and auditability requirements.
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