Realtime Systems Architect - Credit Technology - Executive Director

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in London seeks a Senior Director of Architecture to lead architecture initiatives across multiple departments, driving enterprise AI adoption with governance. The role involves collaboration with business and technical units to align on strategic technology directions and risk management.

You will set governance for AI-enabled workflows, oversee complex projects, and work with senior leaders to ensure resilient, secure, and scalable architecture that supports the firm’s strategic

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on architecture concepts.
• Experience 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

AI governance

Stakeholder management

People development

Education

Formal training in architecture concepts

Architecture certification

Tools

Cloud platforms

Job description

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.

Job responsibilities

• 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.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 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