Heather McElroy

Background

About Heather McElroy

Motivator-in-Chief leading the cloud migration of JPMorgan Chase's data technology platforms including PySpark, Ab Initio, Informatica and Java Spark ETL solutions. Provides a clear North Star for the Data Engineering Center of Excellence for both cloud and on-prem systems with over 90k unique data entities. Drives technical strategies for Data Lakes in AWS S3, Snowflake, Teradata and Vantage. Leads from the front and has my team's back. Recognizes great work and works as hard as I ask my team to. Talent for taking complex ideas and breaking them into actionable engineering steps. Ensure that team members have clear direction and know how to achieve our goals. Ultimate product delivery in a fast-moving environment. Understands priorities and drivers of various teams. Promotes an enterprise-wide perspective and champions partnerships with various teams with multiple priorities working together to accomplish goals. Incorporate all perspectives and aligns everyone on a common strategy. Leads the Modernization workstream for the Columbus Technology Center which includes Hackathons, Engineering Foundations, AWS Deep Racer, and Code Fix-It Days and also bringing technology conferences such as MongoDB, AWS Game Days, Aurora Immersion days. AWS certification workshops for JPMorgan Chase employees and the Columbus community.