Senior Lead Architect

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · OH · Corporate Sector

Senior Lead Architect role in financial services focused on developing high-quality architecture solutions, driving business impact, and shaping target state architecture. Responsibilities include technical governance, evaluating and guiding the use of new technologies, providing technical direction, developing and reviewing code, influencing product design, and acting as a subject matter expert. Requires formal training/certification in architecture concepts, 5+ years of experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability, advanced programming skills, knowledge of software architecture and technical processes (including cloud, AI, ML), independent problem-solving, and cloud-native experience (AWS, Azure). TOGAF or C4 Model expertise is required.

What you'd actually do

  1. Represents a product family of technical governance bodies
  2. Provides feedback and proposes improvements to architecture governance practices
  3. Guides evaluation of current technology and leads evaluation of new technologies using existing standards and frameworks
  4. Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
  5. Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others

Skills

Required

  • Formal training or certification on architecture concepts
  • 5+ years applied experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
  • Advanced in one or more programming language(s), applications, and architecture
  • TOGAF or C4 Model
  • Advanced knowledge of software architecture, applications, and technical processes
  • 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
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to select or recommend the best solutions for the future state architecture

Nice to have

  • Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

What the JD emphasized

  • TOGAF or C4 Model