Ops Excellence - Project Manager- Cash Associate jobs at Jpmorgan in India, Mumbai

As an Operations Research Analyst within the WFP Data Science team, you will tackle complex and high-impact projects. You will assess unstructured problems, develop practical strategies, and propose solutions to enhance decision-making processes. Collaborate with management to prioritize, time, and deliver next-gen operations research solutions.

Job Responsibilities:

• Design and development of optimization models and simulation models.
• Support OR projects individually or part of a project team.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand the business requirements and clearly define the objectives of any solution.
• Identify and select the correct method to solve the problem while staying up to data on the latest OR methodologies.
• Ensure the robustness of any mathematical solution.
• Develop and communicate recommendations and OR solutions in easy-to-understand-way leveraging data to tell a story.
• Lead and persuade others while positively influencing the outcome of team efforts and help frame a business problem into a technical problem resulting in a feasible solution.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• Master’s Degree with 4+ years or Doctorate (PhD) with 2+ years of experience in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering, Financial Engineering, Management Science, and related disciplines operating as an operations research professional.
• Experience supporting OR projects with multiple team members.
• Hands-on experience developing simulation models, optimization models and/or heuristics.
• Deep understanding of math and theory behind Operations Research techniques
• Proficient in Open Source Software(OSS) programming languages like Python, R or Scala.
• Experience with commercial solvers likeGUROBI, CPLEX, XPRESS, or MOSEK & familiarity with basic data table operations (SQL, Hive, etc.).
• Demonstrated relationship building skills, with a superior ability to make things happen through the use of positive influence.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• Advanced expertise with Operations Research techniques.
• Prior experience building Reinforcement Learning Models.
• Extensive knowledge of Stochastic Modelling.
• Previous experience leading highly complex cross-functional technical projects with multiple stakeholders.

Job Summary:

As a Risk & Controls Associate in the Payments CORE Program team, you will support the CORE/RCSA program, focusing on data quality analysis, CORE upkeep and global collaboration with Control Managers. You will be instrumental in driving improvements and ensuring compliance with firmwide standards.

Job Responsibilities:

• Coordinate and enhance the Compliance and Operational Risk Evaluation (CORE) process across Payments Business & Operations stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Payments Control Managers to address and track remediation of risk, compliance, and control issues.
• Interpret and disseminate Firmwide CORE Standards and Procedures to Control Managers.
• Undertake various Risk and Control Program initiatives and present the outcome to senior stakeholders
• Review and close out all Program and self-identified CORE hygiene items.
• Become a subject matter expert in the CORE application and provide guidance to Control Managers.
• Support data quality analysis and reporting as needed.
• Assist with control issues, ensuring appropriate prioritization and escalation.
• Conduct qualitative assessments on high-risk compliance and control areas.
• Communicate regularly with key stakeholders.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Strong analytical skills and experience in data analysis.
• Familiarity with Risk and Control Assessment processes.
• Self-starter with the ability to multitask and work independently.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills.
• Demonstrated initiative, ownership, and accountability.
• Proficient in oral and written communication and presentation.
• Advanced knowledge of MS Office, particularly MS Excel.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Experience in Operational Risk and Controls with working knowledge of CORE preferable.
• Ability to drive CORE related agenda and deliverables.
• Experience in developing partnerships with global teams.

Job responsibilities:

• Build and maintain tools, UIs and frameworks supporting our systematic risk taking in our Rates trading businesses.
• Build and maintain systematic strategies and performance monitoring and attribution systems.
• Enhance the robustness and integration of the tools and models within the wider Rates trading group.
• Process, clean and analyse large datasets used in the context of alpha research.
• Work closely with traders to learn, understand and improve relevant tools and models.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• Extensive professional experience in software development, with a strong focus on Python
• Experience with data analysis techniques along with relevant data science libraries (numpy, pandas, etc.) and visualization tools (dash, panel)
• Knowledge of database systems (KDB)
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills; ability to collaborate effectively with traders, quantitative researchers and software developers
• Exceptional attention to detail and outstanding work ethic
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• Knowledge of Fixed Income / Rates
• Experience with high-frequency trading, algorithmic trading or electronic trading
• Proficiency in Java
• Experience working collaboratively on common codebases using git

Job responsibilities

• Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems
• Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development
• Gathers, analyzes, synthesizes, and develops visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems
• Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on Software Engineering concepts and proficient applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment.
• Proficient in coding in Python.
• NodeJS, React for UI development.
• Databases (Eg: CockroachDB, PostgreSQL)
• Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence tools, etc.)

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Django/Flask/Fast API Framework for Python
• Messaging service (Eg: Kafka/RabbitMQ or any other messaging queue).
• MongoDB and Ops Manager
• Exposure to cloud technologies