Lead Solution Architect (Securities Services Engineering & Architecture)

Archer; Glasgow; Presencial; GBP 90.000 - 120.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Archer, in partnership with JPMorganChase, seeks a Lead Solution Architect to design and govern enterprise-scale architectures across data, information, and technical domains.

You will coordinate with Business Operations, Product Management, and Technology to deliver secure, scalable solutions, leveraging AI-enabled practices and industry-standard patterns across the Securities Services platforms.

Formación

• Formal training or certification in software engineering or architecture concepts.
• Hands-on solution architecture across functional, information and technical dimensions.
• Knowledge of microservices, cloud resiliency, data persistence and data streaming.
• Understanding of data architecture options: ODS, Data Lake, DCAT, OLTP/OLAP.
• Proficiency in AI, machine learning applied to architecture or software engineering.
• OO languages: Java, Python, or C++, with XML/JSON and SQL/Oracle/Cassandra tech.
• Strong domain knowledge in Financial Services, including trading middle office and custody.
• Experience in lean/agile development, CI/CD, and governance processes.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills across business and tech stakeholders.
• Ability to integrate AI-enabled capabilities while ensuring security and auditability.

Responsabilidades

• Engage with stakeholders to articulate requirements as 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 internal teams on designs and credentials.
• Design end-to-end architectures for enterprise-scale platforms and data models.
• Identify opportunities to improve operational stability and solution quality.
• Advocate architecture best practices through presentations and workshops.
• Leverage AI capabilities with human-in-the-loop validation and data handling safeguards.

Conocimientos

Solution Architecture

Data Modeling

UML

Cloud Architecture

CI/CD

Microservices

AI/ML in Architecture

Java

Python

C++

SQL

Oracle

Cassandra

Public Cloud

Security

Communication

Educación

Software Architecture Certification

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Herramientas

MagicDraw

C4 model

Terraform

Descripción del empleo

Archer is collaborating with J.P. Morgan to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.

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.