Data Scientist: Process Analytics & Decision Support

JPMorgan Chase; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase’s Process Intelligence team seeks a Data Scientist to turn business questions into analyses and communicate findings with uncertainty clearly. You will collaborate with partners across engineering, research, and business, applying Python, SQL, and statistical methods to deliver actionable insights while protecting privacy and focusing on scalable solutions.

The role emphasizes rigorous experimentation, reproducible analyses, and strong storytelling to influence decision options

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, or related field with quantitative training.
• 1-3 years of experience in data science or applied research.
• Ability to turn ambiguous business questions into an analysis plan and justify the data and methods chosen.
• Sound judgment in assessing evidence quality, testing assumptions, and communicating uncertainty.
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, pandas, and scikit-learn.
• Knowledge of statistical methods such as regression, including their assumptions and limitations.
• Clear communication and collaboration with stakeholders across disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Clarify the business decision, question, and assumptions with stakeholders and senior team members before selecting data or methods.
• Assess data relevance, quality, and limitations, and recommend additional evidence or methods when needed.
• Prepare and integrate data from task mining, process mining, operational records, surveys, and interviews, within approved access.
• Apply statistical methods, and machine learning where appropriate, in reproducible analyses suited to the question.
• Identify variation, workarounds, rework, and overlooked effort, and test competing explanations.
• Explore unexpected patterns and refine questions as findings emerge.
• Avoid treating activity data as a direct measure of effort or performance, or associations as causes.
• Communicate findings as clear recommendations tied to decision options, uncertainty, and next steps.
• Analyze work systems at an aggregate level, following privacy and responsible-use requirements, rather than rating individual employees.

Skills

Python

SQL

Pandas

Scikit-learn

Education

Bachelor's degree in Data Science or related field

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

Snowflake

Spark

AWS

Job description

JPMorgan Chase’s Process Intelligence team seeks a Data Scientist to turn business questions into analyses and communicate findings with uncertainty clearly. You will collaborate with partners across engineering, research, and business, applying Python, SQL, and statistical methods to deliver actionable insights while protecting privacy and focusing on scalable solutions.

The role emphasizes rigorous experimentation, reproducible analyses, and strong storytelling to influence decision options