Platform Product Director Data Platform

Description

JPMorgan Chase is seeking an Executive Director to lead the HR and Employee Experience (EX) data platform strategy within the HR-EX Data Products organization. This leader will define and deliver the next-generation HR data platform—enabling secure, self-service access, high-quality data, strong governance capabilities, and scalable analytics.

You will partner with HR-EX leadership, Technology, Workforce Data, Platform Engineering, Legal, Privacy, and Data Governance teams to deliver robust platform capabilities in entitlements, catalog/metadata, data quality, lifecycle governance, and usage analytics. This role is critical to modernizing HR’s data ecosystem and empowering data product teams across the function.

Job responsibilities

Lead the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of self-service, well-governed HR data consumption patterns as next-generation replacements for legacy tools

Define and implement a secure, flexible HR data entitlements model in partnership with the Entitlements Governance Lead and Data Privacy teams, ensuring simple self-service access, strong auditability, and reduced exception requests

Own the roadmap for HR-EX data catalog, metadata, glossary, and lineage capabilities, enabling users to easily discover, understand, and trust available data

Deliver tooling and processes to support data classification, data-concept tracking, and metadata governance, strengthening foundations for entitlements, privacy, and data quality operations

Lead the selection, implementation, and integration of Business Data Quality (BDQ) tooling to automate validation, monitoring, remediation, and continuous quality improvement across HR datasets

Establish governance and lifecycle practices for managing different data types in the HR data lake—including data products, temporary datasets, ML/AI datasets—with well defined SOPs and standards for critical calculated fields and measure stores

Deliver platform usage analytics and DUC (Data Usage Control) adherence reporting to help data product managers measure adoption, value, and compliant data usage

Partner with HR leadership, Workforce Data, HR Technology, Platform Engineering, Legal, Privacy, and Controls to ensure platform capabilities align with firmwide governance standards, compliance expectations, and control requirements

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

8+ years of experience or equivalent expertise delivering products, projects, or technology applications

Extensive knowledge of the product development life cycle, technical design, and data analytics

Proven ability to influence the adoption of key product life cycle activities including discovery, ideation, strategic development, requirements definition, and value management

Experience driving change within organizations and managing stakeholders across multiple functions

Proven success standing up a new data platform or delivering major improvements to an existing platform, with ability to articulate platform objectives, success outcomes, and measurable impact

Demonstrated experience taking an incremental, sequenced approach to platform implementation while balancing needs across technical and non-technical users (e.g., analysts, dashboard developers, AI modelers, data engineers)

Strong understanding of modern vendor ecosystems and cloud platforms (Databricks vs. Snowflake vs. MS Fabric vs. native AWS), entitlement platforms (e.g., Immuta, Privacera, Unity Catalog), catalogs (Databricks UC, Unity), AI tooling environments (e.g., Jupyter notebooks), and data quality systems (e.g., Ataccama, DBT)

Experience with data onboarding, metadata management, governance workflows, and compliance requirements in complex enterprise environments

Strong stakeholder engagement skills, including ability to translate technical platform capabilities into clear business outcomes

Experience working in control-heavy or compliance-driven environments, with familiarity across multiple lines of defense or regulatory data requirements

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Recognized thought leader within a related field