Senior Lead Architect

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global financial services firm seeks a Senior Lead Architect to join their Asset & Wealth Management team. This role involves representing architecture strategies, providing technical guidance, and influencing key product decisions. Candidates should have over 10 years of experience in architecture roles, combined with strong knowledge of software applications, cloud technologies, and emerging tech. This position offers significant impact on financial services leveraging advanced solutions.

Qualifications

• 10 years of experience in architecture roles and stakeholder engagement.
• Hands-on experience in system design and application development.
• Ability to evaluate and recommend emerging technologies.

Responsibilities

• Represents architecture strategy on cross-domain change initiatives.
• Provides feedback to improve architecture governance practices.
• Drives decisions influencing product design and application functionality.

Skills

Architecture methodologies

Solution design

C4 notation

ARx notation

Software architecture knowledge

Cloud technologies

Artificial intelligence

Machine learning

Mobile technologies

Strong communication

Job description

If you are excited about shaping the future of technology and driving significant business impact in financial services, we are looking for people just like you. Join our team and help us develop game-changing, high-quality solutions.

As a Senior Lead Architect at JPMorganChase within Asset & Wealth Management (AWM), youare an integral part of a team that works to develop high-quality architecture solutions for various software applications and platforms products. You drive significant business impact and help shape the target state architecture through your capabilities in multiple architecture domains.

Job responsibilities

• Represents architecture strategy on cross-domain change initiatives to CTO level
• Provides feedback and proposes improvements to architecture governance practices
• Provides thought leadership and development for the System of Record for AM Architecture and is capable of operating in the capacity of a Product Owner.
• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams.
• Foster collaboration across the federated architecture teams to reinforce the effectiveness of a common working framework
• Drive decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus across the Asset Management architecture
• Actively engages the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the SoftwareDevelopment Life Cycle
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 10 years of experience in architecture roles and facing off to senior stakeholders
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Experience in architecture methodologies, solution design, C4 notation, ARx notation
• Advanced knowledge of software architecture, applications, and technical processes with in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to select or recommend the best solutions for the future state architecture
• Be highly organised, a great communicator and be a strong advocate for instilling the best possible architecture skills into the Architecture practice.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 10+ years in Financial service, preferably Asset Management
• Product Owner experience leading the direction and strategy of Architecture Tooling
• Development of communities of practice and driving collaboration/partnership
• All aspects of AI; use in architecture, architecting the use/reuse of and using to build architecture tooling, standards, patterns etc.