Lead Solution Architect

Fairygodboss; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in the Securities Services Engineering & Architecture team seeks a Lead Solution Architect to design, assess, and deliver enterprise-scale solution architectures across functional, information, and technical layers for a major reengineering program in UK.

You will lead cross-functional forums, apply AI-enabled techniques to requirements analysis and architecture documentation, ensure conformance to patterns and security standards, and drive governance with external vendors and

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering or architecture concepts.
• Hands-on Solution Architecture experience across functional, information and technical dimensions.
• Knowledge of data modeling and meta-modeling (UML, C4, MagicDraw) and related tools.
• Experience with microservice patterns, cloud resiliency, data persistence and data governance.
• Proficiency in AI/machine learning applications to architecture and software engineering.

Responsibilities

• Engage with stakeholders to articulate requirements and realize secure, robust solutions.
• Apply AI tools to improve requirements analysis, pattern identification and architecture docs.
• Ensure conformance with firm-wide patterns and architecture governance bodies.
• Lead evaluation sessions to assess designs and digital credentials.
• Design end-to-end architectures for enterprise-scale platforms with data models and migration.

Skills

Solution Architecture

Data modeling

Java/Python/C++

UML/M4 modelling

Cloud (AWS)

CI/CD

Agile

Communication

Education

Formal training or certification in software engineering or architecture

Tools

UML

C4

MagicDraw

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

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.