Senior Lead Architect / Tech Program Manager

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · GLASGOW, LANARKSHIRE, United Kingdom · Corporate Sector

Senior Lead Architect / Tech Program Manager for Enterprise Observability Platforms (EOP) at JPMorgan Chase. This role focuses on shaping architectural direction, ensuring successful execution of strategic initiatives, and guiding engineering teams in designing solutions for operational insights in a hybrid cloud environment. The position involves evaluating observability tools, driving architectural standards, leading cross-cutting initiatives, and fostering collaboration across global engineering teams. Requires a strong technologist with experience in both development and support, ideally within financial institutions, and excellent stakeholder management skills.

What you'd actually do

  1. Guide engineering teams in designing solutions that provide valuable operational insights in a hybrid cloud environment
  2. Apply architecture principles and define non-functional requirements with product partners and customers
  3. Evaluate and recommend observability tools, including vendor and open source solutions
  4. Drive consistency and apply architecture standards across developed tools
  5. Lead strategic, cross-cutting initiatives from planning to execution and closure

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical discipline
  • Strong interpersonal and relationship management skills, engaging effectively at all levels
  • Ability to switch between technical design and planning, coordination, and stakeholder management
  • Experience motivating and influencing software development teams
  • Skilled in presenting to executive-level audiences and architectural review boards
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Technology background in both development and support organizations, ideally within global financial institutions
  • Proven team player with experience leading global teams across regions and cultures
  • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to resolve conflicts quickly

Nice to have

  • Recent hands-on experience with Java, Python, or Golang
  • Understanding of application observability, telemetry, and automation of operational processes
  • Experience with public cloud platforms, especially AWS or GCP
  • Background in delivering infrastructure or platform-level programs with regulatory, compliance, or resiliency requirements (e.g., network segmentation, disaster recovery, regional data sovereignty)

What the JD emphasized

  • resilient applications
  • operational platforms
  • observability tools
  • architecture standards
  • cross-cutting initiatives
  • regulatory, compliance, or resiliency requirements