Senior Lead Architect, Client/merchant Onboarding - Cib

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Plano, TX +1 · Commercial & Investment Bank

Lead Architect role focused on developing and delivering architecture solutions for client/merchant onboarding within the CIB Payments division at JPMorgan Chase. The role involves defining technical strategies, participating in governance, evaluating solutions, and driving modernization of platform capabilities, with a strong emphasis on cloud-native experience and APIs within the financial services industry.

What you'd actually do

  1. Engages technical teams and business stakeholders to discuss and propose technical approaches to meet current and future needs
  2. Defines the technical target state of their product and drives achievement of the strategy
  3. Participates in architecture governance bodies
  4. Evaluates recommendations and provides feedback on solution options
  5. Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems

Skills

Required

  • system design
  • application development
  • testing
  • operational stability
  • software patterns and principles
  • onboarding experiences
  • self service
  • assisted onboarding
  • digital onboarding
  • partner integration
  • acquiring payments onboarding
  • complex client setups
  • KYC
  • credit
  • risk
  • screening
  • software applications
  • architecture disciplines
  • financial services industry
  • IT systems
  • cloud native experience
  • APIs
  • business requirements
  • technical delivery roadmap
  • functional architect
  • domain model
  • business process flow
  • client experience
  • use cases
  • business capability
  • features taxonomy
  • communication
  • leadership

Nice to have

  • Point of Sale experience
  • Cloud certification

What the JD emphasized

  • 8+ years of hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability with software patterns and principles
  • Hands on building onboarding experiences, self service and assisted
  • Strategic mindset in shaping onboarding transformation for payments business - includes digital onboarding, self servicing experience for clients, partner integration
  • Solid understand of acquiring payments onboarding and various complex client setups like Integrators, Franchise, Payment Facilitators
  • Solid understanding of various onboarding steps including KYC, credit, risk, screening
  • Advanced knowledge of one or more software, applications, and architecture disciplines
  • Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
  • In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
  • Practical cloud native experience
  • Strong experience in APIs
  • Ability to understand business requirements, create design, create technical delivery roadmap and technical know how's
  • Strong Experience as a functional architect (business / product)
  • Experience with domain model, understands business process flow, client experience and use cases
  • Understands business capability, features taxonomy
  • Strong communication and leadership presence