Senior Lead Architect

If you are excited about shaping the future of technology and driving significant business impact in financial services, we are looking for people just like you. Join our team and help us develop game-changing, high-quality solutions.

As a Senior Lead Architect at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer and Community Banking, you are an integral part of a team that works to develop high-quality architecture solutions for various software applications and platforms products. You drive significant business impact and help shape the target state architecture through your capabilities in multiple architecture domains.

Job responsibilities

• Responsible for the end-to-end architecture of the product, ensuring alignment with business goals and technical requirements.
• Oversee the rationalization of assets owned or used by the product to optimize performance, cost, and resource utilization.
• Define the target state architecture of the product and drive the achievement of the strategic goals.
• Lay out the architectural runway and develop a technical roadmap to achieve the target state in incremental steps.
• Ensure adherence to Enterprise Architecture standards and guidance, maintaining consistency and compliance across the product architecture.
• Address data concerns and non-functional requirements, such as performance, scalability, security, and reliability, within the architectural plans.
• Assess the changing needs of the business and its customers to identify the right architecture and technology solutions that support the product.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams, ensuring best practices and standards are followed.
• Conduct regular reviews and assessments of the product architecture to identify areas for improvement and drive continuous enhancement.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Proven ability to collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Experience in designing end-to-end architecture for systems using Spring Boot/Java microservices, event-driven architecture, and domain-driven design concepts.
• Experience with modernizing legacy systems into cloud-native applications on both public and private cloud platforms.
• Very Good understanding of RESTful APIs, web services, and integration patterns.
• Extensive experience with designing event-driven architectures using Apache Kafka, Rabbit MQ, AWS Kinesis etc. 
• Experience working with both SQL and NoSQL databases. 
• Experience in containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to tailor communication for business stakeholders, developers, technology teams, cross-product architects, and influence senior executives.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate/Professional).
• Experience in the Banking Domain.
• Familiarity with Enterprise Architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman, or similar.
• Experience with Pivotal Cloud Foundry. 
• Familiarity with the AWS Well-Architected Framework and its principles for building secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure.
• Experience with Artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.
• Familiarity with front-end frameworks such as Angular or React.

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.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.