Abhinav Madham
Vice President Lead Data Scientist @ JPMorganChase
About
I am a senior data science and AI leader with 12+ years of experience solving complex business problems across payments, merchant services, and financial services through scalable, production-grade AI and advanced analytics. I lead and develop high performing data science teams, delivering enterprise AI solutions spanning semantic data layers, machine learning platforms, intelligent automation, and agentic AI systems. My expertise lies in connecting business strategy with technical execution designing architectures that enable real-time decisioning, explainability, and continuous learning at scale. With deep domain knowledge in payments and finance, I have worked extensively in high volume, highly regulated environments, modernizing data ecosystems and deploying AI-driven solutions that improve operational efficiency, risk management, and revenue outcomes. I am recognized for strengthening core data foundations, enhancing code quality and model lifecycle management, and building analytics capabilities that move organizations from insight to action. My leadership approach blends hands-on technical depth with strategic partnership. I work closely with product, engineering, risk, and executive stakeholders to ensure data science initiatives are aligned to business priorities and deliver measurable impact. I am particularly focused on advancing enterprise AI maturity through semantic modeling, reusable AI components, and agent based systems that scale across use cases. I am passionate about building durable AI platforms, developing strong technical leaders, and ensuring that data science functions as a strategic enabler.
United States
New York
Financial Services
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Product Development, Product Management, Agentic Automation, SQL, Bid data, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Prompt Engineering, Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Merchant Services, Payments, Payment Gateways, User Experience (UX), Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Message Broker, U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), OpenSSL
Experience

Vice President Lead Data Scientist
New York, New York, United States
Own end-to-end delivery of Enterprise AI business applications, from use case definition and architectural design through production deployment and operationalization. Designed and scaled conversational and LLM-driven applications supporting intelligent decisioning, advanced analytics, and enhanced customer and provider experiences. with emphasis on reliability, governance, and enterprise adoption. Built and deployed multi-agent and autonomous AI workflows using advanced prompting and orchestration techniques to enable complex reasoning, task decomposition, and contextual decision support. Established reusable AI application frameworks integrating semantic data models, curated enterprise datasets, and domain-specific knowledge to accelerate development across multiple business lines. Defined technical standards and best practices for LLM usage, model selection, evaluation, and lifecycle management in production environments. Partnered with product, engineering, risk, and compliance teams to ensure AI applications meet regulatory, security, and performance requirements. Manage and mentor a cross-functional team of data scientists, setting execution strategy, prioritizing initiatives, and developing talent to scale AI capabilities across the organization. Foster a culture of innovation, rigor, and accountability while ensuring AI solutions meet enterprise requirements for performance, governance, and sustainability. Serve as a key contributor to the firm’s broader AI roadmap, helping shape the evolution from model-centric experimentation to durable, business-driven AI applications deployed at scale.

Lead Data Scientist
New York, United States
Led development of advanced analytics and executive-facing dashboards with trend and performance insights, improving visibility into client payment behavior and accelerating business decision-making. Stabilized and enhanced payment performance reporting by resolving systemic data quality and reconciliation issues across source systems, establishing durable solutions that improved data reliability and client trust. Integrated ongoing payment network and brand updates into analytics pipelines, ensuring downstream reporting accuracy and continuity across dependent platforms and client deliverables. Acted as a subject matter expert for cloud migration initiatives, defining analytical approaches, advising project managers, and supporting development teams through architectural and data-transition decisions. Partnered with risk, controls, and audit stakeholders to support assessments and documentation, ensuring analytical processes met firm-wide governance and compliance standards. Strengthened team effectiveness by establishing code review guidelines, delivering technical training, and cross-training peers to improve coverage, consistency, and knowledge transfer across the analytics function.

Lead Data Engineer
new york
Led end-to-end design of enterprise data platforms, starting from business and operational requirements and translating them into scalable physical and logical data models to support analytics, reporting, and machine learning use cases. Authored data models from scratch by partnering directly with product, payments, and operations stakeholders to define business entities, metrics, hierarchies, and data contracts, establishing a consistent analytical foundation across systems. Designed and delivered a petabyte-scale data migration framework to move critical datasets into secure, multi-tenant platforms, embedding validation, reconciliation, and auditability into the core architecture. Built standardized ingestion and transformation frameworks using Python and Shell to load data from internal systems and external partners into the enterprise data lake, incorporating automated business rule validation and data cleansing logic. Owned the evolution of analytical and dimensional data models, ensuring alignment between source systems, downstream reporting, and emerging machine learning requirements. Managed and secured multi-tenant Hadoop environments across multiple data centers, implementing role-based access controls, encryption, and enterprise security standards. Automated large-scale data pipelines and scheduled data loads from Teradata, Oracle, and external sources into Greenplum and Hadoop platforms, improving reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency. Partnered closely with data scientists and analytics teams to resolve data inconsistencies, refine data definitions, and enable accurate, trusted business intelligence. Collaborated with executive, product, and design leaders to align data architecture and modeling decisions with evolving business priorities, and supported delivery of the firm’s first client-facing machine learning solution.

Lead Data Engineer
New York, United States
Developed Java applications for comprehensive data encryption (at rest, in transit, and in use) on Hadoop distributed systems using MapReduce, and created Automated data model processing on big data platforms including Greenplum and Hive. Led cross-functional teams in solving complex, mission-critical problems while providing deep technical expertise in design, analytics, development, and testing to elevate team capabilities and meet business requirements. Mentored innovators and technologists in creating next-level solutions that transformed business operations.

Senior Application Developer
Albany, New York, United States
Designed cutting-edge user interfaces using PrimeFaces framework and integrated Adobe e-signature solutions via REST API across multiple web applications. Implemented online payment gateway systems for 20+ applications. Collaborated with Business Intelligence teams to translate business requirements into backend business logic using Java and JSF solutions, while developing and modifying PL/SQL packages to support new customer features. Participated in full software development lifecycle, consistently delivering on-time business solutions that met customer objectives.

Production Support Engineer & Delivery Manager
Deerfield, Illinois, United States
Developed and maintained application systems with integrated software configuration, while analyzing business processes to define functional requirements and technical specifications. Managed enterprise infrastructure including firewall setup and SSL security. Administered IBM WebSphere clustered environments, application deployments, and messaging systems supporting healthcare document integration with external partners. Oversaw hardware and operating system security updates for specialized healthcare transaction systems, while providing project status reporting to leadership and serving as Change Manager.
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