Lead Architect - Market Expansion Solution Architect

JPMorganChase; Bournemouth; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global financial services firm in Bournemouth is seeking a Lead Architect to influence and provide technical leadership within their Payments Architecture Group. The ideal candidate will have strong software engineering expertise and experience in financial services technology. Responsibilities include engaging stakeholders on design approaches, building trusted relationships, and identifying opportunities for modernization in platform capabilities. Competitive compensation and opportunities for career growth are offered.

Qualifications

• Experience in financial services technology or similar.
• Hands-on experience with complex distributed systems.
• Ability to provide actionable recommendations with little oversight.

Responsibilities

• Engage business and technology stakeholders for design approaches.
• Build relationships to provide business and technical leadership.
• Support evaluation sessions with external vendors.

Skills

Software engineering concepts

Financial services technology

Cloud technologies

Machine Learning

Communication skills

Education

Formal training or certification

Tools

Java or JVM oriented languages

Kubernetes

Job description

Overview

As a Lead Architect at JPMorgan Chase as a part of the JPM Payments Architecture Group, your passion for technology and thirst for innovation will help shape the future of global digital commerce, now and for years to come. You will immerse yourself in solving complex business problems through innovation and proven and repeatable engineering practice. You will partner with Product Teams, Application development teams, and other Technology and Operational teams across the group and the firm, developing an extensive personal network that will allow you to influence and provide technical and architectural leadership and mentoring. You will work on a number of projects which will require differing approaches for success and will depend heavily on collaboration with our colleagues to deliver business results. The Architecture function is a central team that operates horizontally across the 5,000+ technologists delivering business solutions in the Payments Technology organization. We have responsibility for setting standards, policies, and promoting the documentation and adoption of pragmatic architectural patterns as we establish consistency and optimized technical outcomes in support of our aggressive business goals.

Job responsibilities

• Engages business and technology stakeholder to discuss and propose design approaches to meet current and future needs of various business initiatives
• Builds trusted relationships with business and technical decision makers in the customer's organization to provide business and technical thought leadership
• Identify opportunities to modernize platform capabilities along with business initiatives
• Evaluates recommendations and provides feedback on business needs, options to get to market
• Supports the definition of the target state of their product and achievement of the strategy
• Provides 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
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Supports 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
• Participates in architecture governance bodies
• Embrace a culture of inclusive decision making with proactive and thoughtful engagement across Technology, Business and Operations

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and proficient advanced experience
• Working experience in financial services technology or similar industry where technology is at the core
• Technical background with design and delivery experience with software patterns and principles
• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Hands-on experience designing, delivering, optimizing, and modernizing complex distributed systems low-latency systems, from the backend to the UI
• Ability to understand business requirements and complex systems and provide pragmatic and actionable recommendations, solutions, technical delivery roadmaps, etc. with little to no oversight.
• Experience with domain model, understands business process flow, client experience and use cases
• Strategic thinking and passion for business strategy and business processes
• Adept at working in globally diverse teams across different time zones and forging relationships with key business stakeholders and development teams
• Effective communication and presentation skills both to business and technical audience
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience in Treasury Services, Cash Management or Global Transaction Banking would be an advantage
• Experience in risk and risk control compliance
• Experience in networking, security concepts and design and vendor software package evaluations using assessment frameworks
• Experience in complex software package integrations and data migrations
• Experience with public cloud and infrastructure as code
• Experience with Java or JVM oriented languages
• Experience with various data technologies including NoSQL, distributed caching, RDBMS, messaging, and streaming, CockroachDB or similar distributed SQL databases
• Experience building applications making use of Kubernetes native features

About Us

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

About the Team

J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.