Lead Architect

A career with us is a journey, not a destination. This could be the next best step in your technical career. Join us.  

As a Lead Architect at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer & Community Banking Payments Team, you are an integral part of a team that works to develop high-quality architecture solutions for various software applications on modern cloud-based technologies. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical architecture solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of project goals.

Job responsibilities

• Engages technical teams and business stakeholders to discuss and propose technical approaches to meet current and future needs
• Defines the technical target state of their product and drives achievement of the strategy
• Participates in architecture governance bodies
• Evaluates recommendations and provides feedback on new technologies
• 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
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information 
• Designs and implements scalable and reliable cloud-based solutions on AWS, utilizing services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, and RDS.
• Integrates DevOps practices, including Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform and AWS CloudFormation, and Configuration Management with Ansible or Chef.
• Establishes and maintains Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, or AWS CodePipeline.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 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)
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Practical cloud-native experience, particularly with AWS services and architecture, including VPC, IAM, and CloudWatch.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
• Advanced knowledge of one or more software, applications, and architecture disciplines
• Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to recommend the best solutions for the future state architecture