Realtime Systems Architect - Credit Technology - Executive Director

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase seeks a Senior Director of Architecture to lead firmwide architecture initiatives across departments and drive AI-enabled, governance-focused delivery. You will oversee multiple areas, align with senior leadership, and ensure secure, compliant adoption of enterprise AI capabilities.

This role champions architecture strategy with a broad, cross-functional impact. You will collaborate with executives, manage large programs, and promote industry-leading practices in architecture,

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on architecture concepts and advanced applied experience.
• Experience developing or leading large and sometimes cross-functional teams of architects.
• Experience leading safe adoption of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment across multiple architecture teams.

Responsibilities

• Leads architecture and process implementations across departments to achieve firmwide objectives.
• Sets reuse-first expectations for enterprise-approved AI adoption with human-in-the-loop validation and data sensitivity handling.
• Directly manages multiple areas with strategic focus and provides leadership across teams, divisions, and lines of business.
• Establishes cross-department governance for AI-assisted workflows, including traceability, auditability, and control aligned to security standards.
• Leads complex projects supporting system design, testing, and operational stability.

Skills

Architecture leadership

AI governance

Cloud native

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Job description

• Leads multiple architecture and process implementations across departments to achieve firmwide architecture objectives and manages multiple stakeholders, complex projects, and large cross-product collaborations
• Sets reuse-first expectations for enterprise-authorized AI adoption within the work environment across architecture domains to accelerate delivery and improve decision quality, with human-in-the-loop validation and appropriate handling of sensitive data.
• Directly manages multiple areas with strategic transactional focus and provides leadership and high-level direction to teams while frequently overseeing employee populations across multiple platforms, divisions, and lines of business
• Acts as the primary interface with senior leaders, stakeholders, and executives while driving consensus across competing objectives
• Establishes cross-department governance for AI-assisted and agentic workflows used in architecture decisioning and delivery, including traceability/auditability and control expectations aligned to resiliency and security standards.
  Formal training or certification on architecture concepts and advanced applied experience
• Experience developing or leading large and sometimes cross-functional teams of architects
• Demonstrated experience leading safe adoption of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment across multiple architecture teams, including validation practices and awareness of data sensitivity.
• Ability to define governance expectations for AI-assisted and agentic workflows, including human approval checkpoints, auditability, and control boundaries aligned to resiliency, security, and operational risk outcomes.
• Experience leading complex projects supporting system design, testing, and operational stability
• Experience hiring, developing, and recognizing talent
• Extensive practical cloud native experience
  If you are ready to lead the way in technology innovation at JPMorganChase, we've got an exciting opportunity for a technology leader like you to make a real difference in the industry.

As a Senior Director of Architecture at JPMorganChase within the Digital and Platform Services, you lead across multiple areas, manage the activities of multiple departments, and collaborate across both business and technical domains in the Architecture function to execute critical initiatives of the function. Your expertise is applied cross-functionally to drive the adoption and implementation of technical methods within various teams and aid the firm in remaining at the forefront of industry trends, best practices, and technological advances., 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., 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.