Release Management Analyst

The Finance Data Insights Release Management team provides change governance and release execution across Finance data products that support internal financial reporting and external regulatory reporting.

As an analyst on the release management team you will support end-to-end planning and execution of change events across Finance data platforms (data warehouse/lake environments). A key expectation of this role is to improve release velocity reliability and stakeholder experience by driving automation standardization and AI-assisted ways of working (e.g. faster detection triage and investigation of data anomalies and release issues).

Job Responsibilities

• Support end-to-end release/change executionacross Finance data platforms covering both planned and ad hoc change events. This role supports releases that occuron weekends based on release calendars and business needs.
• Support high-velocity well-controlled changeby ensuring governance approvals documentation and evidence are completed without slowing delivery.
• Identify assess and escalate risks/issueswith clear options impacts and mitigation plans; drive timely decision-making.
• Lead stakeholder managementacross the lifecyclesetting expectations negotiating scope/timelines and tailoring communications to varied audiences.
• Embed AI-assisted analytics and automationinto release execution and quality controls to accelerate anomaly detection regression testing issue triage and root-cause investigation.
• Establish and trackoperational KPIs(e.g. release lead time change failure rate defect leakage rework incident volumes automation coverage) and use insights to prioritize continuous improvement.
• Partner with data engineering and platform to improvedata quality monitoring observability and proactive risk identification ahead of releases.
• Drive efficiency and performance improvementacross the release lifecycle by standardizing processes reducing manual effort improving cycle times and increasing predictability (e.g. fewer defects faster recovery improved on-time delivery).
• Execute testing and quality activities including regression testing and anomaly detection to validate changes align with requirements and expected outcomes.
• Produce executive-ready materials(updates KPIs decision decks) to support leadership visibility and modernization priorities.
• Program-manage key initiativesand contribute to modernization efforts through disciplined planning reporting and delivery governance.

Required qualifications capabilities and skills

• A bachelors degree
• 2 yearsof experience inrelease/change management program/project management or related delivery roles.
• Working knowledge of managing release/change events with strong attention torisk controls and stakeholder impact.
• Strong data analytics skills including ability toquery and analyze data to support validation and issue investigation.
• Experience coordinatingtesting and quality validation(e.g. regression testing reconciliations data quality checks) and leading root-cause analysis.
• Stakeholder management skills (influencing negotiation expectation management) and strong data storytelling.
• Advanced skills in metrics reporting and presentation creation including executive-level PowerPoint outputs.
• Strong written and verbal communication with ability to tailor messages by audience.
• Advanced Excel (or equivalent analytical tooling).
• Experience usingAI-assisted analytics tools and/or automationto accelerate delivery and improve performance (e.g. anomaly detection regression testing acceleration smarter alerting/triage faster investigation and root-cause analysis improved data quality monitoring).

Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills

• Agile delivery mindset; experience usingJIRAand working knowledge ofJQL.
• Experience in Financial Services and/or a Consulting background.
• Experience with modern data platforms and tooling includingDatabricks.
• Familiarity withData Meshconcepts and/or cloud strategy.

To be eligible for this role you must be authorized to work in the United States. We do not offer any type of employment-based immigration sponsorship for this role. Likewise JPMorgan Chase & Co. will not provide any assistance or sign any documentation in support of any other form of immigration sponsorship or benefit including optional practical training (OPT) or curricular practical training (CPT).