Sr Lead Architect, AI

JPMorgan Chase & Co.•Jersey City, NJ

About The Position

As a Senior Lead Architect at JPMorganChase within Employee Platforms, 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.

Requirements

Formal training or certification on architecture or infrastructure engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
3+ years experience in AI Technology, Model development or AI Governance in an enterprise environment including agentic systems, RAG pipelines, hybrid LLM/SLM models.
Hands-on experience with GenAI platforms.
Advise senior leaders on AI Strategy, roadmaps, and governance.
Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
Advanced in one or more programming language(s), applications, and architecture
Advanced knowledge of software architecture, applications, and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
Practical cloud native experience
Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to select or recommend the best solutions for the future state architecture
Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Nice To Haves

AI Certification
Experience with multi-agent architectures
Familiarity with GenAI Ops, AI Governance Frameworks (NIST AI RMF), and AI FinOps.
Thought-leadership experience (speaking, publishing, open source).

Responsibilities

Represents a product family of technical governance bodies
Provides feedback and proposes improvements to architecture governance practices
Guides evaluation of current technology and leads evaluation of new technologies using existing standards and frameworks
Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
Drives decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect