Our Corporate Technology Machine Learning team at JPMorgan Chase focuses on solving challenging business problems such as Anti-Money Laundering and Surveillance through data science and machine learning techniques across Risk, Compliance, Conduct and Operational Risk. As a Lead Data Scientist on the team, you'll shape the technology solutions that drive strategic initiatives across the firm. Working at the intersection of business and technology, you'll interact with colleagues in various lines of businesses to learn about challenges and opportunities, and translate that insight into high-quality solutions. In addition to working with the development team to create new solutions, you'll help optimize existing technology and identify new capabilities. While your role requires deep technological skills – including expertise in everything from data management to functional design – it also hinges on teamwork and leadership. You'll offer clear guidance and feedback to your Business Analysis colleagues, while promoting the values, culture, and brand of JPMorgan Chase & Co. 

Job Responsibilities

• Lead the build-out of the Country Risk Team’s new data analytics capabilities
• Help to protect the firm by developing new insights that will support senior management in making key country decisions
• Become an expert in the data used by the team, including the ability to efficiently and creatively transform that data into insights
• Develop potential machine learning use cases for the team, to apply to tasks such as data analytics, NLP, time-series predictions or recommendation systems
• Collaborate with multiple partner teams such as Business, Technology, Product Management, Legal, Compliance, Strategy and Business Management to deploy solutions into production

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Master’s degree in a data science-related discipline, plus at least six years of industry experience (or: PhD in a data science-related discipline, plus at least three years of industry experience)
• Extensive experience with data transformation (especially in Python) and analytics
• Hands-on experience with machine learning and deep learning toolkits (e.g. TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-Learn), with some industry experience in implementing them preferred
• Experience with continuous integration models and unit test development
• Strong written and spoken communication to effectively communicate technical concepts and results to both technical and business audiences.
• Scientific thinking with the ability to invent and to work both independently and in highly collaborative team environments
• Curious, hardworking and detail-oriented, and motivated by complex analytical problems

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Familiarity with the financial services industry and Risk management
• Background in NLP and analytics, personalization/recommendation
• Knowledge in search/ranking, Reinforcement Learning or Meta Learning
• Experience with A/B experimentation and data/metric-driven product development, cloud-native deployment in a large scale distributed environment and ability to develop and debug production-quality code

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set, and location. For those in eligible roles, we offer discretionary incentive compensation which may be awarded in recognition of firm performance and 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