Vice President - Strategy Lead for Data Development Lifecycle (DDLC)

Job Description The Chief Data Office helps teams across the firm maximize the value of data through strong governance, clear standards, scalable delivery practices. You will join a team focused on improving how data and AI solutions move from idea to production with the right controls and a strong practitioner experience. This role offers broad exposure across product, engineering, architecture, and risk partners, with opportunities to shape how teams build and operate data products at scale. Responsibilities Define and continuously improve the target-state data development lifecycle across intake, design, build, test, release, and run, including decision rights and exception management. Partner with architecture and engineering leaders to establish reference architectures and reusable patterns that enable secure, controlled development and testing environments. Drive roadmap, adoption, and outcomes for lifecycle-enabling platforms and toolchains by translating practitioner needs into clear product requirements, prioritization, and rollout plans. Enable adoption through playbooks, training, communications, change champions, and practitioner feedback loops. Embed and automate controls-by-design into the lifecycle in partnership with risk and control stakeholders, using automation-first approaches where possible. Facilitate cross-functional working groups to align stakeholders and remove execution friction across product, engineering, architecture, risk, and controls. Identify, elevate and help mitigate risks and dependencies that could impair strategy execution; manage trade-offs and sequencing. Produce executive-ready materials to communicate complex concepts and drive decisions with senior leadership. Operate independently in a highly collaborative, matrixed environment to build consensus and deliver measurable change. Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills At least eight years of experience in financial services, management consulting, and/or large-scale data or technology transformation. Strong technical fluency across data analytics, data science, data engineering, and modern data platforms, with the ability to translate between practitioners and senior stakeholders. Practical knowledge of data product concepts and modern distributed data patterns, including integration between software and data development lifecycles. Demonstrated experience driving cross-functional operating model or process change and scaling adoption across multiple organizations. Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders and align diverse groups without direct authority. Strong written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level communication of complex technical topics. Experience improving lifecycle capabilities for data products, including continuous integration and delivery enablement, environment promotion strategies, automated testing approaches, release governance, and production support operating models. Experience partnering with engineering and platform teams to deliver measurable workflow improvements (for example, reduced onboarding time, faster release cadence, improved reliability, and increased control automation coverage). Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills Experience supporting data science and AI development workflows (for example: reproducibility, model validation, monitoring, and experimentation-to-production practices). Experience designing or scaling control frameworks that improve compliance outcomes while reducing practitioner friction. Experience working in a large, highly regulated environment with complex technology landscapes. Experience developing reusable reference patterns and standards that improve developer experience and consistency. We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded for individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process. JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans. #J-18808-Ljbffr JPMorganChase