Data Strategy Analytics Director

The Chief Data & Analytics Office (CDAO) at JPMorgan Chase is tasked with accelerating the firm’s data and analytics journey, ensuring data quality, integrity, and security, and leveraging it to promote decision-making. The CDAO harnesses artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to support the firm’s commercial goals, develop new products, and enhance risk management. The Strategy and Execution team defines and executes the CDO vision and strategy. The Firmwide Chief Data Office (CDO) maximizes the value and impact of data globally, with teams focused on data strategy, impact optimization, privacy, governance, transformation, and talent.

As the Data Strategy Analytics Director, you are expected to develop insights and tracking to support the execution of JP Morgan Chase’s Firmwide Data Strategy. In this role, you will work across systems and functions to discover the data needed, design analyses and reports, and synthesize insights to inform JPMC senior leadership on the progress against and opportunities presented by our data strategy. You will build a team of high powered data scientists who drive decision-making through insight. You will be hands on with a wide range of systems, ranging from Cloud to on-premise, bringing statistical rigor and advanced data science methods to your work. You will collaborate with our platform partners to design observability across a wide range of processes, and build instrumentation where thee are data gaps. 

Job responsibilities:

• Actively develop thorough understanding of complex business problems and processes related to aspects of our data strategy 
• Collaborate with business partners to understand their systems and processes 
• Lead tasks throughout a model development process including data wrangling/analysis, model training, testing, and selection. 
• Generate structured and meaningful insights from data analysis and modelling exercise about critical strategic initiatives, and present them in appropriate format according to the audience. 
• Provide mentorship and oversight for junior data scientists to build a collaborative working culture. 
• Partner with machine learning engineers to deploy machine learning solutions. 
• Own key model maintenance tasks and lead remediation actions as needed. 
• Stay informed about the latest trends in the AI/ML/LLM/GenAI research and operate with a continuous-improvement mindset.  

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Advanced degree (MS, PhD) in a quantitative field (e.g., Data Science, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics) or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of relevant experience in data analysis and AI / ML domain
• In-depth expertise and extensive experience with ML projects, both supervised and unsupervised
• Strong programming skills with Python, R, or other equivalent languages. 
• Proficient in working with large datasets and handling complex data issues. 
• Experience with broad range of analytical toolkits, such as SQL, Spark, Scikit-Learn, XGBoost, graph analytics, and neural nets. 
• Excellent solution ideation, problem solving, communication (verbal and written), and teamwork skills. 

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Familiarity with machine learning engineering and developing/implementing machine learning models within AWS or other cloud platforms. 
• Familiarity with the financial services industry.
• Experience building or managing datasets for telemetry and observability of analytic and data systems

JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set, and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation awarded in recognition of 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. 

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.

JPMorgan Chase is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans