Payment Operations - Data Domain Architect - Vice President

Payments Operation (PO) is part of the Digital & Platform Services organization in the Corporate & Investment Bank. PO supports Payments, Receivables and Trade Finance Products and acts as the payment hub for JPMorgan Chase across the firm’s business lines. PO consists of 5,500 employees across 60 sites and supports 142k corporations, financial institutions, governments, and municipalities domiciled in over 180 countries. On average, PO processes 30.1MM transactions daily across 122 currencies valued at $3.2T. 

 Payments Operations and the Payments industry are undergoing significant amounts of change and disruption – industry, technology, and organizational. It is critical to develop and execute on a strategy that will enhance the organization’s business and operational model and position it for continued success. 

Job Summary:

We are seeking an experienced Data Domain Architect to join the Strategy, Innovation & Digitization Data team within the Payments Operations organization. The role will work within a team that provides data architecture leadership and strategy, and solutions data engineering use cases focused on data analytics, metrics and insights across Payments Operations.  This team is a service provider to the various Payments Operations teams and to be successful, the candidate will need to closely collaborate with a number of Operations and Technology Leaders across their respective organizations.

This role is ideal for a highly motivated individual with a strong passion for data, problem solving, and domain knowledge as well as strong interpersonal and communication skills.  

Job Responsibilities:

• Understand the data landscape across the Payments organization and work to leverage all available data resources
• Leverage technical skills to source and prepare data from a variety of data sources including traditional databases, no-SQL, Hadoop, and Cloud.  
• Works closely with data analytics staff within our team to understand requirements and partner to optimize solutions and develop / foster new ideas
• Work with Data Domain Architect lead on all facets of Data Domain Architecture, including resource management  
• Work with Tech, Product and CIB data partners to research and implement use cases
• Evaluate the current data architecture and shape the future state data architecture and roadmap to serve on Payments Operations data needs

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• 6+ years of relevant work experience as a data/ML engineer, data scientist, business intelligence engineer
• Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Financial Engineering, MIS, Mathematics, Statistics or other quantitative subject
• Analytical thinking and problem-solving skills coupled with ability to understand business requirements and to communicate complex information effectively to broad audiences and collaborate across teams at varying levels using a consultative approach
• General understanding of Agile Methodology
• Cloud platform knowledge
• Traditional Database Skills (Oracle, SQL Server).  Strong SQL overall
• Understanding of ETL framework and tools including Alteryx
• Fundamental understanding of Data Architecture 
• Ability to profile, clean, and extract data from a variety of sources
• Analytics and insights development experience – telling stories with data using Tableau / Alteryx
• Exposure to data science, AI/ML and model development

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Prefer hands on experience with Databricks or Snowflake
• Experience with Python/PySpark

 

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. 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. Addit