Lead Solution Architect

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase seeks a Lead Solution Architect to design, assess, and deliver high‑quality architectures across three interrelated domains. You will work in a cross‑functional agile team supporting a strategic reengineering effort for Securities Services platforms.

You will apply AI tools to accelerate requirements analysis, ensure patterns and standards alignment, and drive architecture governance with strong communication across business and technology stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering or architecture concepts.
• Hands-on Solution Architecture experience across functional, information and technical dimensions.
• Strong data modeling and meta-modeling knowledge (UML) or with tools like C4 or MagicDraw.
• Knowledge of microservice deployment patterns, Cloud resiliency, data persistence and metadata management.
• Proficiency in AI, ML or related techniques applied to architecture or software engineering.
• Experience with Java, Python or C++, XML/JSON, and databases like SQL, Oracle or Cassandra.
• Strong communication skills across business and technology stakeholders.
• Experience in lean/agile development, CI/CD and architecture governance.

Responsibilities

• Engage with stakeholders to articulate requirements and realize secure, robust solutions.
• Apply AI tools to improve architecture practices and documentation.
• Ensure conformance with architecture patterns and governance bodies.
• Lead evaluation sessions with vendors and technology partners.
• Design end-to-end architectures for enterprise-scale platforms and data models.
• Identify opportunities to automate remediation for operational stability.
• Advocate architecture benefits across communities through presentations and workshops.
• Leverage AI capabilities within the SDLC with proper data handling and governance.
• Establish reuse-first AI-enabled engineering patterns with traceability and security.

Skills

Solution architecture

Data modeling

Cloud architecture

Modeling tools

Education

Software architecture certification

Tools

MagicDraw

UML

C4 diagrams

SQL databases

Job description

As a Lead Solution Architect at JPMorganChase within the Securities Services Engineering & Architecture team, you will be part of a cross-functional agile team responsible for designing, assessing, and delivering high-quality solution architectures underpinning the platforms built as part of a strategic reengineering effort supporting the Securities Services businesses within the Commercial & Investment Bank. Solution Architecture, as practiced in this role, comprises three interrelated disciplines - Functional Architecture, Information Architecture, and Technical Architecture - and the Lead Solution Architect is expected to work fluidly across all three. You will engage across multiple concurrent streams of work, helping accelerate development, improve solution quality, and ensure alignment to firm-wide architecture patterns and standards.

Job Responsibilities

• Engage with Business Operations, Product Management, and Technology stakeholders to ensure business requirements are properly articulated, understood, and realized as secure and robust solutions.
• Apply AI tools and techniques to improve Solution Architecture practices - including accelerating requirements analysis, pattern identification, data modeling, and architecture documentation.
• Ensure full conformance with firm-wide, CIB, and sub-Line of Business (sub-LOB) architecture patterns and standards, participating in architecture governance bodies.
• Lead evaluation sessions with external vendors, internal teams, and technology partners to assess architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability within existing systems and information landscapes.
• Design and assess end-to-end solution architectures for enterprise-scale platforms, including data and metadata models, master/reference data usage, persistence and data migration.
• Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve operational stability and solution quality.
• Evangelize the benefits and importance of Solution Architecture across business and technology communities through strong communication, presentations, workshops, and agile development forums.
• 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.
• Establishes reuse-first AI-enabled engineering patterns and governance across SDLC/toolchain practices, ensuring traceability/auditability, resiliency, and security controls.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering or architecture concepts and applied experience.
• Hands-on Solution Architecture experience in enterprise-sized applications spanning functional, information, and technical dimensions, with strong working knowledge of data modeling and meta-modeling (such as UML) or tools such as C4 or MagicDraw.
• Knowledge of core Solution Architecture capabilities: Micrososervice deployment patterns, Cloud Resiliency, Data Persistence, Data Streaming, Data Quality and Metadata Management.
• Knowledge of data architecture options including ODS, Data Lake, Data Catalog (DCAT), Data Warehousing, OLTP, and OLAP, and the treatment of data as a technology asset.
• Demonstrated proficiency in AI, machine learning, or related techniques as applied to architecture or software engineering disciplines.
• Hands-on experience with object-oriented software development using languages such as Java, Python, or C++; data formats including XML and JSON; and database management technologies including SQL, Oracle, Cassandra, and Public Cloud data offerings.
• Very strong knowledge of the Financial Services domain with emphasis on institutional businesses including Trading Middle Office, Prime Brokerage, Custody, Fund Accounting, and Securities and Derivatives Products across buy-side and sell-side perspectives.
• Experience working within lean/agile development frameworks, continuous integration, and continuous delivery.
• Extremely strong communication and facilitation skills across business and technology stakeholders, with the ability to communicate unambiguously through presentations, documents, workshops, and agile meetings.
• Ability to evaluate and integrate AI-enabled capabilities into enterprise-grade architectures while meeting resiliency, security, and auditability requirements.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Hands-on Public Cloud solution design experience, primarily AWS, including architecture certification for a Public Cloud provider.
• Experience with microservice application development, Service-Oriented Architecture, or N-Tier Architecture.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code designs and secure application and software design practices.
• Experience with Cyber Security concerns informing solution architectures, including working knowledge of industry standards in the authentication and authorization domains.
• UML experience/exposure