Applied AI ML Lead - Payments

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · LONDON, LONDON, United Kingdom · Commercial & Investment Bank

Lead the end-to-end delivery of advanced machine learning and AI solutions for Payments and Banking Operations, focusing on production deployment, scalability, and integration within a regulated financial environment. The role involves developing innovative solutions including GenAI and agentic approaches, establishing MLOps practices, and providing technical leadership.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead end-to-end delivery of machine learning and AI solutions for complex Payments and Banking Operations challenges, from discovery to production rollout and lifecycle management.
  2. Develop innovative ML-based solutions, including GenAI and agentic approaches, and define evaluation, safety, and monitoring strategies for production use.
  3. Own production deployment patterns, including containerization, CI/CD, automated testing, model registries, governance, monitoring, alerting, and rollback strategies.
  4. Architect and deploy scalable, reliable, and secure ML services integrated with strategic platforms and downstream consumers (APIs, batch, streaming), meeting SLAs and SLOs.
  5. Partner with product, operations, risk/control, and technology teams to influence roadmaps, align on requirements, and deliver data-driven transformations.

Skills

Required

  • Master’s degree in a quantitative field or Bachelor’s degree with equivalent relevant experience.
  • Deep understanding of machine learning and AI fundamentals.
  • Strong applied data analysis skills.
  • Experience with rigorous evaluation and measurement in real-world settings.
  • Proven experience deploying and operating machine learning models in production at scale.
  • Observability, reliability, incident management, and continuous improvement.
  • Proficiency in Python software engineering.
  • Production-grade, modular OOP design, testing, performance tuning, and debugging.
  • Familiarity with MLOps and distributed systems.
  • Training and serving patterns, batch and real-time architectures, feature stores, orchestration, and scalable data processing.
  • Ability to design evaluations aligned with business goals.
  • Offline and online alignment and guardrails for unintended outcomes.
  • Experience working in regulated environments.
  • Awareness of model risk, controls, privacy, security, and audit-ready documentation.
  • Strong problem-solving, communication, stakeholder management, and teamwork skills.
  • Results-driven mindset and client focus.

Nice to have

  • Experience with NLP and/or GenAI (LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, tool/function calling, agentic workflows), including evaluation and safety patterns.
  • Expertise with machine learning frameworks and data science packages (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-Learn, NumPy, Pandas, SciPy, statsmodels).
  • Experience deploying to AWS (e.g., SageMaker, Bedrock) and operating production workloads with attention to cost, performance, security, and scaling.
  • Experience integrating human-in-the-loop or user feedback signals into iterative improvement processes.

What the JD emphasized

  • end-to-end delivery
  • production rollout
  • production use
  • production deployment patterns
  • production workloads
  • regulated environments
  • audit-ready documentation

Other signals

  • end-to-end delivery of machine learning and AI solutions
  • production deployment patterns
  • scalable, reliable, and secure ML services
  • MLOps and distributed systems