The role
From JPMorgan Chase's own posting.
Bring your expertise to JPMorgan Chase. As part of Risk Management and Compliance, you are at the center of keeping JPMorgan Chase strong and resilient. You help the firm grow its business in a responsible way by anticipating new and emerging risks, and using your expert judgement to solve real-world challenges that impact our company, customers and communities. Our culture in Risk Management and Compliance is all about thinking outside the box, challenging the status quo and striving to be best-in-class.
As a Data Scientist Vice President within the Compliance, Conduct Operational Risk Data Analytics organization, you will be responsible for devising and developing Proofs of Concept (POCs) and deployable models using AI/ML techniques, algorithms and other statistical and numerical methods. You will need to able to extract and work with large volumes of data (both structured and unstructured) from multiple sources, transforming it into an analysis-ready format to develop the data pipeline. Additionally, you are expected to independently formulate methodologies, and quantitative and analytical tasks, from business problems.
Job Responsibilities
Analyze complex/unstructured data to understand the business problem and use case
Analyze business requirements, design, and develop appropriate methodology
Develop deployable, scalable and effective models/ analytical methods as part of technology managed system or as a self-served application of a business user
Work collaboratively and creatively with other data scientists, technology partners, risk professionals, model validation teams, etc.
Prepare technical documentation of quantitative models for internal model risk and governance review
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
6+ years of related experience in Python, R or Scala with Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Physical Sciences, Econometrics, Statistics, or other any quantitative discipline.
Demonstrable theoretical and application knowledge of Machine Learning methods, and/or Statistical Models
Demonstrable hands-on experience and familiarity with any or all of the following packages, algorithms, and/or alternatives, including Graph Learning Packages : (NetworkX, Torch-Geometric, Graphframes, Graphistry),ML Packages (Pandas, Scikit-Learn, XGBoost, catboost, lightgbm, automl, Optuna, Hyperopt), Visualization Packages (Matplotlib, Seaborn, Geopandas), Algorithm (Ensemble Louvian / Hierarchical Clustering, Label Propagation, Connected Component Analysis, Graph Neural net (Graph Attention Network), Page Rank, Centrality Analysis, Tree based Analysis, Outlier Detection Methods, Zero Shot/ Few Shot learning)
Demonstrable experience with LLM prompt engineering and open source LLM fine tuning for a specific domain
Demonstrable experience with agentic solution development and insights on how to improve consistency and reliability in agentic behavior
Hands-on professional experience in software development especially with analytical & computationally intensive systems, digital transformations leveraging cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure, Databricks etc.)
Experience in developing and operationalization of data pipelines
Familiarity and experience of assimilating large amounts of data from multiple databases and utilize them for creating actionable outcome; Adhering to a standardized analysis and project methodology; and Documenting quantitative analysis
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
Post graduate degrees such as Master’s Degree, PhD, etc. is preferred
Working knowledge of C/C#/C++ or others is a plus
Real life exposure to Agile SDLC, ModelOps and /Or Design Thinking is desirable.
Familiarity with Natural Language Processing techniques is a plus
Self-starter and strong influencing skills with strong communication skills
Experience in financial services industry and/ or, experience with process, controls and governance of a highly regulated environment