Lead Data Engineer

There’s nothing more exciting than being at the center of a rapidly growing field in technology and applying your skillsets to drive innovation and modernize the world’s most complex and mission‑critical systems.

As a Lead Data Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the International Private Bank Technology team, you will lead the Platform modernization data engineering technology team in Glasgow. You will be part of a diverse global team supporting our underlying business and partnering with other technology teams to modernize the platform. This role provides an opportunity to promote data strategy for static and reference data as well as work on the modernization effort, ensuring consistency and synergy across the global platform.

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• Work with business and technology product owner on product backlog prioritization
  
• Drive program roadmap with the product owner
  
• Own overall application technical architecture and design
  
• Contribute development across the system, including web front‑end, back‑end services and database
  
• Manage and oversee the contributions of team members
  
• Engage with business and technology stakeholders across the organization, including front‑office business, product owners, other technology teams, and technology/business management
  
• Follow and promote Agile practices such as Scrum and TDD/BDD
  
• Ensure consistency and synergy across the global platform by collaborating regularly with peers across the global team
  
• Support the platform across all environments, including production, in a DevOps model
  
• Own end‑to‑end delivery of the product and work with management to mitigate risk
  

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• Formal training or certification in data engineering concepts and proficient advanced experience
  
• Software development experience using database technologies and middleware technologies, including Core Java, Spring or Spring Boot, JUnit, Mockito
  
• Experience in application architecture and design
  
• Experience with database technologies such as Oracle, SQL Server and PostgreSQL
  
• Experience building REST APIs and AWS Lambda functions
  
• Knowledge of test‑driven development and testing frameworks
  
• Knowledge of cloud technologies such as Cloud Foundry or AWS
  
• Knowledge of messaging technologies such as Kafka or IBM MQ
  
• Knowledge of data formats like JSON and XML
  
• Experience in Agile development methodologies
  
• Experience with version control tools such as Git
  

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• Experience in Wealth Management domain
  
• Knowledge of container technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker
  
• Knowledge of building micro‑services
  
• Experience with distributed caches such as GemFire, ehCache, Hazelcast
  
• Knowledge of monitoring tools such as Splunk or Dynatrace
  

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 approach 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.

J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management delivers industry‑leading investment management and private banking solutions. Asset Management provides individuals, advisors and institutions with strategies and expertise that span the full spectrum of asset classes through our global network of investment professionals. Wealth Management helps individuals, families and foundations take a more intentional approach to their wealth or finances to better define, focus and realize their goals.