Senior Lead Architect: Payments
at J.P. Morgan
Posted a month ago
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- Compensation
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- City
- Chicago
- Country
- United States
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Senior Lead Architect within Commercial Investment Banking responsible for defining and driving high-quality architecture solutions for payments-related applications and platforms. The role guides technology evaluations, provides technical governance, and advises engineering teams, contractors, and vendors. Hands-on responsibilities include developing and reviewing secure production code, promoting firmwide SDLC practices, and influencing product design and operational processes. Requires cloud-native experience and the ability to independently solve complex design and functionality problems.
Location: Chicago, IL, United States
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 the Commercial Investment Banking team, you are an integral part of a team that works to develop high-quality architecture solutions for various software applications and platforms products. You drive significant business impact and help shape the target state architecture through your capabilities in multiple architecture domains.
Job responsibilities
- Represents a product family of technical governance bodies
- Provides feedback and proposes improvements to architecture governance practices
- Guides evaluation of current technology and leads evaluation of new technologies using existing standards and frameworks
- Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
- Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- Drives decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
- Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
- Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
- Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
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), 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
- Prior fin-tech background preferred
- Passionate about technology
- Excellent communication skills
