Data Strategy Analytics Director

Job Description
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 a Data Strategy Analytics Director within JP Morgan Chase, you will be responsible for developing insights and tracking mechanisms to support the execution of our Firmwide Data Strategy. Your role will involve working across various systems and functions to identify necessary data, design analyses and reports, and synthesize insights to inform our senior leadership about the progress and opportunities presented by our data strategy. You will lead a team of skilled data scientists who promote decision-making through insight. Your hands-on approach will span a wide range of systems, from Cloud to on-premise, applying statistical rigor and advanced data science methods to your work. In collaboration with our platform partners, you will design observability across a broad range of processes and build instrumentation to fill 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

About Us
JPMorganChase, 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. 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 & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans
About the Team
Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.