LLM / NLP Data Scientist Lead - Vice President - ESG

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A global leader in financial services seeks a Senior Data Scientist to design and implement machine learning solutions that support ESG and Stewardship teams. This role involves collaboration with stakeholders to create innovative tools, building technical architectures, and enhancing data science capabilities in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree or significant practical industry experience required.
• Experience with NLP, LLM, and ML techniques.
• Ability to communicate complex concepts to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Gather requirements and understand business needs.
• Develop technical solutions using LLMs for content extraction.
• Stay current with developments in data science.

Skills

NLP

Machine Learning techniques

Python programming

Deep learning frameworks

Education

Advanced degree in quantitative or technical discipline

Job description

Overview

Job Description

Are you ready to shape the future of investment management with cutting-edge data science? At J.P. Morgan Asset Management, you'll have the opportunity to create impactful solutions that support our ESG and Stewardship teams. You'll collaborate with talented professionals, grow your expertise, and make a real difference in how we serve our clients. Join us to advance your career and work on meaningful projects in a dynamic, inclusive environment.

As a Senior Data Scientist in Asset Management's Data Science team, you will design and implement machine learning solutions that enhance our ESG and Stewardship functions. You will work closely with stakeholders across stewardship, ESG, and engineering to build innovative tools from the ground up. Your technical expertise will drive impactful results, and you\'ll play a key role in shaping our data science capabilities. You\'ll thrive in a collaborative culture that values hands-on problem solving and continuous learning.

Job Responsibilities

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to gather requirements and understand business needs
• Develop technical solutions using LLMs for search, content extraction, and principles-based reasoning
• Build comprehensive testing packages to ensure solution efficacy and stakeholder trust
• Design technical architectures and solutions for scalable implementation
• Partner with engineering teams to deliver high-quality, scalable outputs
• Stay current with developments in data science and become a subject matter expert
• Communicate complex concepts and results to both technical and business audiences

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Advanced degree in a quantitative or technical discipline, or significant practical industry experience
• Experience applying NLP, LLM, and ML techniques to solve 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
• Strong understanding of ML algorithms including clustering, decision trees, and gradient descent
• Knowledge of language models, prompt engineering, model finetuning, and domain adaptation
• Familiarity with deep learning frameworks and their latest developments
• Ability to communicate complex concepts and results to technical and business audiences

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Experience in Asset Management
• Business domain knowledge in ESG, investment stewardship, proxy voting, corporate filings, or buyside investment
• Familiarity with model explainability and self-validation techniques
• 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 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.

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 that span 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.