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As a Lead Architect at JPMorgan Chase within the Asset & Wealth Management – Global Private Bank Engineering & Architecture division, you are an integral part of a team that works to develop high-quality architecture solutions for various software applications on modern cloud-based technologies. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical architecture solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of project goals.
Within this group you’ll be working across our application portfolio applying your deep technical knowledge to help Global Private Bank Technology teams to design and operate modern, efficient, and secure Cloud Native Applications on AWS.
Job responsibilities
- Architecture Leadership
- Develop and implement architecture principles, strategies and guidelines. Lead the design and development of complex systems and solutions.
- Provide technical guidance and direction to support application development teams. Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle.
- Ensure architecture governance practices are followed. Evaluate new technologies and tools to drive innovation and improve existing systems.
- Technical Expertise
- Possess deep expertise in multiple technology domains and technologies such as
- Cloud computing (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS). Compute/Container/Orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS, Lambda/Serverless etc.)
- Microservices & multi-tier architectures. DevOps/CI/CD (GIT/Bitbucket, Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, Sonar)
- Java (Core & EE, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Cloud) & Python. RDBMS systems and NoSQL, Storage Technologies (S3, EBS etc.)
- API – GraphQL, REST, API Gateway. Integration and events/messaging technologies (Kafka, RabbitmQ, SNS, SQS)
- Caching Solutions such as Elasticache/Redis, Hazelcast, EHCache. Observability and monitoring (Dynatrace, Cloud Watch, Grafana, Splunk, Datadog)
- Stay updated on industry trends and best practices to ensure architecture alignment with business goals
- Collaboration
- Work closely with cross-functional teams including developers, engineers, product managers and business stakeholders, understanding functional, and non-functional requirements then leading strategic architecture choices, contributing to the overall design.
- Provide guidance oversight to applications teams developing or migrating workloads to Public Cloud/AWS.
- Coordinate with partner teams resolution of challenges and frictions found during execution of our portfolio of projects.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
- 8+ years applied experience with strong proficiency in software development methodologies, architecture frameworks, design patterns, testing and operational stability
- Proficiency with multiple mainstream programming languages
- Demonstrated prior experience influencing across teams to deliver modern architecture
- Extensive practical cloud native experience. Familiarity with a wide range of Cloud Services, its capabilities, and trade-offs.
- Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to recommend the best technology solutions and approaches to achieve the future state architecture
- Curious problem solver with ambition to keep up with rapidly changing technical landscape.
- Hands on experience working at code level
- Skilled in verbal, written and diagrammatic communication, working across a wide range of people with the ability to adapt approach and styles.
- Knowledge of AI/ML technologies and architecture is a major plus
J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
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