Senior Lead Architect-Digital and Platform Services

JPMorgan Chase & Co.•Chicago, IL

9d•$147,250 - $225,000

About The Position

As a Senior Lead Architect at JPMorganChase within Commercial Investment Banking, Digital and Platform Services team, you are an integral part of a team that works to develop high-quality architecture solutions for various software applications and platform products. You drive significant business impact and help shape the target state architecture through your capabilities in multiple architecture domains. You will support Global Banking businesses and operations powered by a full suite of technology platforms that deliver document management, integration, workflow solutions, and cutting-edge AI/GenAI capabilities. Your passion for technology and innovation will help shape the future of global digital commerce, bringing critical leadership and strategic thinking to cross-functional projects and teams.

Requirements

Formal training or certification on architecture concepts and 5+ years applied experience
Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
Advanced in one or more programming language(s) and deep expertise in software architecture, applications, and technical processes within one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
Demonstrated experience applying enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment in architecture and engineering workflows with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity
Ability to evaluate and integrate AI-enabled capabilities into enterprise-grade architectures while meeting resiliency, security, and auditability requirements
Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to select or recommend the best solutions for the future state architecture
Strong judgment and communication skills to influence technical direction across teams
Bachelor’s degree or related experience
Demonstrated ability to architect and build high-volume, microservices, domain-driven, event driven and cloud-native systems
Hands-on experience with one of the public clouds: AWS, Azure or GCP

Nice To Haves

Expertise in application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines
Hands-on experience with GenAI and Agentic AI
Experience with Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes technologies
Knowledge in at least one area of technical architecture
Strategic thinking and passion for business strategy and business processes
Experience in risk and risk control compliance
Ability to work collaboratively in teams and develop meaningful relationships to achieve common goals

Responsibilities

Represents a product family in technical governance bodies and proposes improvements to architecture governance practices
Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
Leverages enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate architecture analysis and decisioning across the product family, with human-in-the-loop validation and appropriate handling of sensitive data
Guides evaluation of current and new technologies using existing standards and frameworks, influencing peers and decision-makers to adopt leading-edge solutions where appropriate
Drives decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert and contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide SDLC frameworks and practices
Establishes reuse-first AI-enabled engineering patterns and governance across SDLC/toolchain practices, ensuring traceability/auditability, resiliency, and security controls
Defines current, proximal, and target state architecture for strategic applications, optimizing business value from both Line of Business and Global Technologies products
Leads initiatives to integrate GenAI technologies into existing systems to enhance decision-making, automation, and customer experience
Builds new innovative solutions using modern technology and cloud native design principles that solve business problems and drive business growth