Senior Lead Architect, Product Architecture

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · OH · Consumer & Community Banking

Senior Lead Architect role in financial services focusing on developing high-quality architecture solutions for software applications and platform products, driving business impact, and shaping target state architecture. Responsibilities include technical governance, evaluating technologies, providing technical guidance, developing production code, influencing product design, and acting as a subject matter expert. Requires formal software engineering training, experience in system design, application development, testing, operational stability, advanced programming and architecture knowledge, cloud-native experience, and ability to evaluate emerging technologies. Preferred qualifications include experience with large-scale distributed systems, financial services technology, regulatory requirements, leading teams, DevOps, and security best practices.

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 software engineering 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), 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

Nice to have

  • Experience with large-scale distributed systems
  • Familiarity with financial services technology and regulatory requirements
  • Experience leading cross-functional teams or projects
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, and automation tools
  • Knowledge of security best practices in architecture

What the JD emphasized

  • 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 evaluate current and emerging technologies to select or recommend the best solutions for the future state architecture
  • Familiarity with financial services technology and regulatory requirements