Vice President - Senior Lead Architect

JPMorgan Chase & Co.•Columbus, OH

11h•$142,500 - $215,000

About The Position

This role involves developing architecture assessment agents for enterprise-scale business services, representing product families in technical governance, and leveraging AI capabilities to enhance architecture analysis. The position requires guiding the evaluation of new technologies, driving architecture decisions that impact product design and engineering processes, and providing hands-on technical leadership throughout the software delivery lifecycle. The individual will also serve as a subject matter expert, establishing AI-enabled engineering patterns and governance, and offering technical guidance to various teams and vendors.

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 proficiency in one or more programming languages and deep expertise in software architecture, applications, and technical processes within one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, distributed systems)
Demonstrated experience applying enterprise-authorized AI capabilities 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 future-state architecture
Strong judgment, decision-making, stakeholder management, and communication skills with the ability to influence technical direction across teams, architecture governance forums, and senior technology stakeholders
Demonstrated experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale technology solutions with consideration for scalability, resiliency, security, operational stability, and long-term architectural sustainability

Nice To Haves

Experience with formal architecture governance frameworks (e.g., TOGAF or equivalent)
Exposure to modern technology paradigms including cloud, AI/data, distributed systems, platform-based architectures, and enterprise modernization initiatives
Experience with engineering practices such as continuous integration/continuous delivery, Infrastructure as Code, observability, automation, and modern software development lifecycle practices
Relevant certifications (e.g., TOGAF, cloud, ITIL, CISSP, or equivalent)
Track record of driving enterprise-wide initiatives that improve consistency, reuse, efficiency, and engineering excellence
Experience working in regulated environments, including operational resilience, third-party risk, and governance considerations

Responsibilities

Develop architecture assessment agents to evaluate critical end-to-end business services at enterprise scale
Represent a product family in technical governance bodies and propose improvements to architecture governance practices
Leverage enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate architecture analysis and decision-making across the product family, with human-in-the-loop validation and appropriate handling of sensitive data
Guide evaluation of current and emerging technologies using existing standards and frameworks, influencing peers and decision-makers to adopt leading-edge solutions that improve scalability, resiliency, security, and engineering effectiveness
Drive architecture decisions that influence product design, application functionality, technical operations, and engineering processes across multiple teams and technology domains
Develop secure and high-quality production code, review and debug code written by others, and provide hands-on technical leadership throughout the software delivery lifecycle
Serve as a function-wide subject matter expert and contribute to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide software development lifecycle frameworks and practices
Establish reuse-first AI-enabled engineering patterns and governance across software development lifecycle and toolchain practices, driving consistency, traceability, auditability, resiliency, security, and engineering excellence
Provide regular technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors