Lead Architect, Blockchain Technology

JPMorgan Chase & Co.•Jersey City, NJ

2d•$156,750 - $215,000

About The Position

A career with us is a journey, not a destination. This could be the next best step in your technical career. Join us. You are a hands-on architect with a passion for building robust solutions and a keen eye for detail. You thrive on solving complex technical challenges, partnering closely with engineers and stakeholders, and applying emerging technology thoughtfully to deliver measurable outcomes in a highly controlled environment. As a Lead Architect at JPMorganChase within the Kinexys team in the Commercial & Investment Bank, you will define and drive the technical target state for key products and capabilities. You will work side-by-side with engineering teams to design, build, and evolve secure and resilient solutions that meet business needs today while preparing for future growth. You will leverage enterprise-authorized artificial intelligence capabilities to accelerate architecture discovery and decision-making, applying strong human-in-the-loop validation and careful handling of sensitive data.

Requirements

Formal training or certification on architecture concepts and 5+ years applied experience
Practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
Proficiency across software development life cycle execution, including automation and continuous delivery practices and agile methods such as continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), application resiliency, and security
Demonstrated proficiency within a technical discipline (for example, cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, or mobile) and ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to recommend future-state solutions
Experience applying enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment in software engineering and architecture workflows, with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity
Ability to evaluate and integrate AI-enabled capabilities into cloud-native architectures while meeting resiliency, security, and auditability requirements
Hands-on experience with public blockchain ledger platforms including Ethereum (Solidity, Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)) and alternative Layer 1/Layer 2 chains such as Solana, covering smart contract development, deployment pipelines, and token standards (ERC-20, ERC-721)
Practical knowledge of the broader blockchain ecosystem tooling, including wallets, remote procedure call (RPC) providers, block explorers, indexers, and on-chain/off-chain integration patterns

Nice To Haves

Experience with blockchain protocols, smart contract development, and decentralized application integration
Experience with cloud migration, multi-cloud strategies, and cloud security best practices
Familiarity with modern front-end technologies
Exposure to emerging technologies in financial services
Advanced proficiency in one or more programming languages

Responsibilities

Engage technical teams and business stakeholders to discuss and propose technical approaches to meet current and future needs
Define the technical target state of your product and drive achievement of the strategy
Leverage enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate architecture discovery and decisioning, with human-in-the-loop validation and appropriate handling of sensitive data
Evaluate recommendations and provide feedback on new technologies, including outcomes-oriented evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to assess architectural designs and applicability within existing systems and information
Execute creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
Develop secure and high-quality production code, and review and debug code written by others
Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
Establish reuse-first AI-enabled engineering patterns and governance across software development life cycle and toolchain practices, ensuring traceability, auditability, resiliency, and security controls