Payments- Data Architect (CARI) Senior Associate
Job Summary
Do you have a passion for data. You have found the right team!
As a Data Architect Senior Associate on the Instrumentation and Metrics (I&M) team you will serve as a data product business owner to help define and execute against a book of work and mutually agreed upon roadmaps for various data and analytics supporting the Payments business. This data drives efficiency and increase capacity for users while ultimately helping grow and protect revenue through previously untapped insights that help inform business decisions and strategy.
The Instrumentation and Metrics (I&M) team reports into the Corporate & Investment Bank (CIB) Payment Transformation organization and is aligned to J.P. Morgan Payments.
Job responsibilities
- Partner with Finance and business stakeholders to solve problems using strong business and data knowledge disciplined analysis and clear communication.
- Deliver fast-turnaround insights for initiatives ad hoc requests and urgent fire drills while maintaining quality and transparency around assumptions and limitations.
- Own ambiguous non-routine requests where requirements may be incomplete and the solution path is not obvious.
- Produce strong first-pass deliverables quickly (the 80% rule) and iterate rapidly based on feedback and new information.
- Conduct deep-dive research into underlying data (definitions trends behaviors code/flag logic and compilation methods) to ensure accuracy and readiness for high-visibility work.
- Continuously reprioritize as business needs shift; manage time effectively to maintain throughput in a fast-paced environment.
- Operate within a shared analyst pool by supporting teammates when demand spikes and helping maintain consistent service levels across requests.
- Identify and drive improvements by enhancing automating simplifying and strengthening processes and outputs; challenge the status quo constructively.
- Analytical rigor and attention to detail: validates findings documents sources and clearly communicates implications.
- Team-first mindset: accountable individually while committed to shared outcomes and supporting others when needed.
- Continuous improvement orientation: consistently looks for incremental ways to add value beyond maintaining the status quo.
Required qualifications capabilities and skills:
- End-to-end researcher: investigates problems methodically rather than relying on surface-level signals.
- Independent proactive self-starter: tests hypotheses and advances work without needing a fully defined path.
- Creative problem-solver: applies practical thinking and knows when the simplest explanation is most likely correct.
- Strong judgment and systems thinking: anticipates downstream impacts; communicates risks dependencies and tradeoffs early.
- Adaptable and resilient: adjusts quickly to changes in priorities data and tools.
- Experience in a Finance/Accounting environment.
- Intermediate SQL query-writing capability.
- Moderate to advanced Alteryx experience.
- Demonstrated knowledge of one or more BI/data concepts such as ETL data modeling reporting automation and/or dashboarding.
- Strong communication project management and stakeholder partnership skills.
Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills:
7 years of experience in MIS Business Intelligence and/or Analytics roles.
Intermediate Excel proficiency (e.g. PivotTables VLOOKUP or equivalent lookup functions).
Proven ability to deliver timely high-quality analysis from diverse and complex data sources; strong attention to detail required.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans ov ... View more