Lead Information Architect

JPMorgan Chase • Jersey City, NJ

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About The Position

As Lead Information Architect, you will be part of a federated team responsible for designing, assessing, and assisting in the overall functional and data architecture underpinning the platforms that are being built out as part of a strategic reengineering effort supporting the Securities Services businesses within the JPMorgan Chase Commercial & Investment Bank. The Strategic Reengineering effort is a high profile, mission critical program with many concurrent streams of work with aggressive timelines. The Information Architect will work within several streams at the same time and will be expected to help accelerate development and improve the overall quality of these deliverables.

Requirements

• Hands-on Object-Oriented software development in enterprise-sized applications utilizing languages such as Java, Python, C++; data formats like XML and JSON; Database Management Technology Standards, such as SQL.
• Hands-on Information Architecture in enterprise-sized applications with a strong working knowledge of Data Modelling and Meta-modelling (preferably with UML) or the use of alternative Data Modelling tools such as ERwin, Power Designer and Magic Draw.
• Very strong knowledge of the Financial Services Domain with an emphasis on Custody Services.
• Knowledge of various Data Architecture options including ODS, Data Lake, Data Catalogue (DCAT), Data Warehousing, OLTP and OLAP.
• Strong knowledge of Data Management technologies such as Oracle, Cassandra and Public Cloud offerings in this space.
• Knowledge of core Information Architecture capabilities, including Master and Reference Data Management, Data Quality (DQ), Metadata Management, Data Taxonomy, Data Integration, Data Migration and Data Modelling.
• Ability to collaborate with business teams to understand, translate, review and playback requirements into Functional and Information Architectures.
• Experience working within a lean/agile development framework, continuous integration, continuous delivery.

Nice To Haves

• Preferred knowledge of Institutional Businesses including Trading Middle Office, Prime Brokerage, and Fund Accounting across Securities and Derivatives Products.

Responsibilities

• Engaging with Business Operations, Product Management and Technology groups to ensure that business requirements are properly articulated and understood.
• Helping teams overcome hurdles through direct engagement and remaining aware of what is going on across the program through less direct mechanisms.
• Ensuring full conformance with firm-wide, Commercial & Investment Bank and sub-LOBs Architecture Patterns and Standards.
• Working to realize continuous improvement on the solutions being built out.
• Communicating effectively across different areas of the company to evangelize the benefits and importance of Functional & Information Architecture.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior