Senior Lead Architect-Digital and Platform Services

If you are excited about shaping the future of technology and driving significant business impact in financial services, we are looking for people just like you. Join our team and help us develop game-changing, high-quality solutions.

As a Senior Lead Architect at JPMorganChase within Commercial Investment Banking, Digital and Platform Services team, you are an integral part of a team that works to develop high-quality architecture solutions for various software applications and platform products. You drive significant business impact and help shape the target state architecture through your capabilities in multiple architecture domains.

You will support Global Banking businesses and operations powered by a full suite of technology platforms that deliver document management, integration, workflow solutions, and cutting-edge AI/GenAI capabilities. Your passion for technology and innovation will help shape the future of global digital commerce, bringing critical leadership and strategic thinking to cross-functional projects and teams.

Job responsibilities

• Represents a product family in technical governance bodies and proposes improvements to architecture governance practices

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors

• Leverages enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate architecture analysis and decisioning across the product family, with human-in-the-loop validation and appropriate handling of sensitive data

• Guides evaluation of current and new technologies using existing standards and frameworks, influencing peers and decision-makers to adopt leading-edge solutions where appropriate

• Drives decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes

• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others

• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert and contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide SDLC frameworks and practices

• Establishes reuse-first AI-enabled engineering patterns and governance across SDLC/toolchain practices, ensuring traceability/auditability, resiliency, and security controls

• Defines current, proximal, and target state architecture for strategic applications, optimizing business value from both Line of Business and Global Technologies products

• Leads initiatives to integrate GenAI technologies into existing systems to enhance decision-making, automation, and customer experience

• Builds new innovative solutions using modern technology and cloud native design principles that solve business problems and drive business growth

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 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 in one or more programming language(s) and deep expertise in software architecture, applications, and technical processes within one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)

• Demonstrated experience applying enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment 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 the future state architecture

• Strong judgment and communication skills to influence technical direction across teams

• Bachelor’s degree or related experience

• Demonstrated ability to architect and build high-volume, microservices, domain-driven, event driven and cloud-native systems

• Hands-on experience with one of the public clouds: AWS, Azure or GCP

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Expertise in application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines

• Hands-on experience with GenAI and Agentic AI

• Experience with Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes technologies

• Knowledge in at least one area of technical architecture

• Strategic thinking and passion for business strategy and business processes

• Experience in risk and risk control compliance

• Ability to work collaboratively in teams and develop meaningful relationships to achieve common goals