Lead Architect, Connected Commerce

JPMorgan Chase & Co.•Wilmington, DE

About The Position

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 Card division of Consumer & Community Banking, you are an integral part of a team that works to develop high-quality architecture solutions for various software applications and platform products. Your passion for technology and drive for innovation will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of global digital commerce. You will provide essential leadership and strategic thinking, collaborating with teams of architects to align cross-functional projects, ensuring they are both fiscally and technically sound. Your contributions will have a substantial and positive impact, whether working in-house, collaborating with technologists across JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s global technology community, or partnering with leading tech firms worldwide.

Requirements

Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
Demonstrated proficiency in building Microservices on cloud/distributed environments
Experience in architecting and building highly scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems
Experience in designing and building batch and streaming pipelines to process data
Experience in UI/UX Architecture – Frontend application design using React or Angular
Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle including automated end-to-end and performance testing
Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
Practical cloud-native experience, preferably AWS
Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to recommend the best solutions for the future state architecture
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills to address technical challenges and find innovative solutions

Nice To Haves

Experience in modeling languages like UML or C4 model and knowledge of EA frameworks like TOGAF is preferable
AWS Certification preferred
Advanced in one or more programming languages like Java, React, or Python

Responsibilities

Collaborate with the product team within the Lifestyle space to enhance customer Dining experiences through Chase channels and the Infatuation
Develop new system designs, ensuring necessary approvals and collaborating with engineering towards delivery
Engage with marketing platforms and understand customer engagement through automated orchestration
Act as an ambassador for the product, demonstrating enthusiasm for technology
Manage stakeholder relationships to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions
Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation, including architecture diagrams and design specifications
Evaluate and recommend new technologies and tools to enhance solution architecture and meet business needs
Ensure solutions adhere to security standards and compliance requirements, implementing best practices for data protection
Engage technical teams and business stakeholders to discuss and propose technical approaches to meet current and future needs
Define the technical target state of their product and drive achievement of the strategy, and 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
Lead evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information