Senior Lead Architect

As a Senior Lead Architect at JPMorgan Chase within the GT Enterprise Architecture team of CTO, you play a crucial role in developing high-quality architecture solutions for a range of software applications and platform products. Your expertise across multiple architecture domains enables you to promote significant business impact and contribute to shaping the target state architecture.

Job responsibilities

• Guides evaluation of current technology and leads evaluation of new technologies using existing standards and frameworks
• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Drives decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
• Identifies opportunities to integrate technology preferences into existing engineering tools and pipelines to ease the adoption of strategic products
• Authors patterns and blueprints to guide the implementation of technical preferences
• Partner with application owners, infrastructure teams, risk, and compliance groups to understand requirements, resolve conflicts, and drive consensus on architecture and technology choices.
• Influence and coordinate with senior stakeholders and technology communities across the firm to encourage the implementation and use of the technology preferences framework.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s), applications, and architecture
• Advanced knowledge of software architecture, applications, and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to select or recommend the best solutions for the future state architecture
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
• Experience designing architecture for both on premises and Public Cloud systems
• Experience implementing Resiliency requirements for large scale systems
• Practical experience implementing Risk, Controls and Regulatory requirements
• Experience running large scale transformation programmes