Lead Architect - Enterprise Architecture Payments Domain

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As an Enterprise Business Architect at JPMorgan Chase within Corporate & Investment Banking - Payments Team, your passion for technology and thirst for innovation will help shape the future of global digital commerce, now and for years to come. As part of our Payments Architecture and Engineering Group, you will immerse yourself in solving complex business problems through innovation and proven and repeatable engineering practice. You will partner with Product Teams, Application development teams and other Technology and Operational and teams across the group and the firm, developing an extensive personal network that will allow you to influence and provide technical and architectural leadership and mentoring. You will work on a number of projects which will require differing approaches for success and will depend heavily on collaboration with our colleagues to deliver business results.

The Engineering & Architecture function is a central team that operates horizontally across the 5,000+ technologists delivering business solutions in the Payments Technology organization. We have responsibility for setting standards, policies and driving the documentation and adoption of pragmatic architectural patterns as we establish consistency and optimized technical outcomes in support of our ambitious business goals.

We operate principally across six main domains: Enterprise architecture, information architecture, technical architecture, infrastructure architecture, security architecture and engineering. With the group of highly technical Subject Matters Experts, we have a very strong matrix alignment across each of the domains throughout the Payments Technology organization.

Job responsibilities

• Collaborates with Chief Business Technologists (CBT) and their technology teams
• Collaborates with our Business and Operations partners on emerging strategies and technologies
• Participates in the creation and maintenance of the Payments target state architecture strategy
• Applies governance and design approvals at Enterprise architecture levels
• Embraces a culture of inclusive decision making with proactive and thoughtful engagement between the CBT organization and Engineering & Architecture

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience
• Proficiency in application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines
• Proficiency in architecture and design across all systems
• Knowledge in at least one area of technical architecture
• Strategic thinking and passion for business strategy and business processes
• Experience in risk and risk control compliance
• Ability to work collaboratively in teams and develop meaningful relationships to achieve common goals
• Significant amount of working experience in financial services technology or similar industry where technology is at the core.
• Experience in Treasury Services, Cash Management or Global Transaction Banking
• Adept at working in globally diverse teams across different time zones and forging relationships with key business stakeholders and development teams
• Effective communication and presentation skills both to business and technical audience

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 over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

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