VP, Applied AI/ML for Wholesale Payments Ops

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in New Jersey seeks an Applied AI/ML - Vice President to build enterprise AI/ML solutions for Wholesale Payments Operations within Consumer Investment Banking.

You will frame problems with stakeholders, define success metrics, and plan roadmaps, delivering production services on AWS with rigorous governance and responsible AI practices. You will mentor engineers, lead reviews to improve quality and delivery speed, and contribute to scalable platforms that support operations

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.
• 6 years of professional software engineering experience delivering production systems.
• 4 years of advanced Python development in production environments, including AI-assisted coding tools to improve throughput while preserving code quality.
• 4 years of hands-on experience deploying production machine learning systems on AWS (SageMaker, Lambda, ECS/EKS, S3).
• Demonstrated experience delivering AI/ML solutions with measurable business outcomes at scale.
• Experience with object-oriented design, distributed systems, and performance engineering.
• Demonstrated experience building and deploying LLM-based applications, including retrieval-augmented generation and fine-tuning workflows.
• Hands-on experience in NLP, OCR, or document AI solutions in production.
• Experience implementing MLOps practices using tools such as MLflow, Kubeflow, Airflow, feature stores, or model registries.
• Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers and driving execution against multi-quarter roadmaps.
• Strong communication skills, including translating business needs into technical deliverables for senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior business stakeholders to frame problems, define success metrics, and align AI/ML roadmaps to priorities.
• Lead architecture, design, and end-to-end delivery of enterprise AI/ML solutions for Wholesale Payments Operations.
• Write clean, production-quality code and set engineering standards across the team.
• Champion modern software development life cycle (SDLC), continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), and DevOps practices.
• Deploy and operate AI/ML services on AWS at scale.
• Apply advanced techniques including data/text mining, document analysis, classification, OCR, NLP, and LLM workflows (retrieval-augmented generation and fine-tuning).
• Design and implement scalable, secure data pipelines to support model training and inference.
• Define and enforce MLOps, model governance, monitoring, and responsible AI practices; represent the team in architecture and risk forums.
• Evaluate model performance in production, including drift management and reproducibility.
• Mentor engineers, conduct code and design reviews, and support recruiting and talent development.

Skills

Python development

Production systems

NLP/AI

CI/CD

DevOps

Mentoring

Communication

Education

Master’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering/Math or related field

Tools

AWS SageMaker

AWS Lambda

ECS/EKS

S3

GitHub Copilot

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in New Jersey seeks an Applied AI/ML - Vice President to build enterprise AI/ML solutions for Wholesale Payments Operations within Consumer Investment Banking.

You will frame problems with stakeholders, define success metrics, and plan roadmaps, delivering production services on AWS with rigorous governance and responsible AI practices. You will mentor engineers, lead reviews to improve quality and delivery speed, and contribute to scalable platforms that support operations