Data Scientist Director - Asset Management

ZipRecruiter; England; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm seeks a Data Scientist Director to enhance ESG and Stewardship functions through innovative solutions utilizing large language models. This hands-on role requires advanced technical skills and experience in NLP/ML, with responsibilities including collaboration, solution development, and architecture design, making a significant impact within the organization.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in a quantitative or technical discipline or significant practical experience in industry.
• Commercial experience in applying NLP, LLM, and ML techniques.
• Advanced Python programming skills with experience writing production-quality code.
• Good understanding of ML algorithms.
• Strong knowledge of models, prompt engineering, model fine-tuning, and domain adaptation.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to build out requirements.
• Develop technical solutions utilizing LLMs.
• Build comprehensive testing packages.
• Help to design technical architectures and solutions.
• Collaborate heavily with engineering functions.

Skills

NLP

ML

Python

Content Extraction

Semantic Search

Education

Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in a quantitative or technical discipline

Tools

Deep Learning Frameworks

Job description

Job Description

Job Description

As a Data Scientist Director in JP Morgan Asset Management's Data Science team, you will focus on developing solutions to support our ESG and Stewardship functions with a heavy focus on content extraction, search, and principles-based reasoning with LLMs. You will work directly with stewardship, ESG, and engineering functions to build solutions from the ground up. Despite the seniority, this is a technical role with an expectation that you are hands-on in both code and design.

Job Responsibilities

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to build out requirements and understand business needs.
• Develop technical solutions utilizing LLMs with a focus on problems involving search, content extraction, and principles-based reasoning.
• Build comprehensive testing packages to ensure the efficacy of solutions and to build trust with stakeholders.
• Help to design technical architectures and solutions.
• Collaborate heavily with engineering functions to deliver high-quality, scalable output.
• Stay up to date with the latest developments in your problem space. Become an SME within the data science function.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in a quantitative or technical discipline or significant practical experience in industry.
• Commercial experience in applying NLP, LLM, and ML techniques in solving high-impact business problems, such as semantic search, information extraction, question answering, summarization, personalization, classification, or forecasting.
• Advanced Python programming skills with experience writing production-quality code.
• Good understanding of the foundational principles and practical implementations of ML algorithms such as clustering, decision trees, gradient descent, etc.
• Strong knowledge of models, prompt engineering, model fine-tuning, and domain adaptation.
• Familiarity with the latest developments in deep learning frameworks.
• Ability to communicate complex concepts and results to both technical and business audiences.

Additional qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Prior experience in an Asset Management line of business.
• Strong business domain knowledge in ESG, investment stewardship, proxy voting, corporate filings, or buy-side investment.
• Familiarity with techniques for model explainability and self-validation.
• CFA or equivalent financial qualification.

About Us

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals, and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

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 value diversity. We do not discriminate based on any protected attribute, including race, gender, age, religion, or veteran status. We also accommodate applicants' and employees' practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

About the Team

J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management delivers industry-leading investment management and private banking solutions. Asset Management provides individuals, advisors, and institutions with strategies and expertise across the full spectrum of asset classes through our global network of investment professionals. Wealth Management helps individuals, families, and foundations take a more intentional approach to their wealth or finances to better define, focus, and realize their goals.