Senior Lead Architect - Cloud Utilization

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

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in Glasgow seeks a Senior Lead Architect to drive the product roadmap and technical architecture of a cloud utilization platform. This role involves managing a team of engineers, collaborating with finance teams, and ensuring that the product delivers business value. Candidates should have significant experience in software engineering or cloud architecture, strong knowledge of cloud platforms, and expertise in FinOps principles. The position offers an opportunity to influence cloud cost management strategies and innovation in a multi-cloud environment.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in software engineering or cloud architecture.
• Hands-on experience in cloud-native application development.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and technical processes.

Responsibilities

• Own the product roadmap for CloudVision's Utilization featureset.
• Design and guide technical architecture for utilization metrics.
• Provide technical guidance to an engineering squad of 8 engineers.

Skills

Software engineering

Cloud architecture

Programming languages

Cloud platforms knowledge

FinOps expertise

Financial services experience

Tools

Terraform

Java

React

Job description

GLASGOW, LANARKSHIRE, United Kingdom

• Job Identification 210693141
• Job Category Architecture
• Business Unit Corporate Sector
• Posting Date 12/30/2025, 03:57 PM
• Locations 315 Argyle Street, Glasgow, Glasgow City, G2 8AT, GB
• Job Schedule Full time

Job Description

If you are excited about shaping the future of cloud financial operations at one of the world's leading financial institutions, we are looking for people just like you. Join our Platform Operations team and take ownership of CloudVision's Utilization capabilities—a strategic platform that provides visibility into cloud resource usage across AWS, Azure, GCP, and JPMC's private cloud infrastructure.

As the product owner of the Utilization featureset, you'll drive the roadmap for a platform that currently monitors over 6 million EC2 instances weekly, captures 196 million data points, and delivers insights that directly influence optimization decisions across the firm. In 2026, you'll lead the expansion from AWS-only coverage to a true multi-cloud utilization platform, enabling teams across JPMorganChase to maximize the value of their cloud investments.

This is a unique opportunity to combine deep technical architecture with product ownership, working at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, big data, and financial operations. You'll guide an engineering squad of approximately 8 engineers, collaborate with finance and FinOps leaders across lines of business, and shape the technical direction of both CloudVision and Shakespeare, our homegrown cloud billing engine.

As a Senior Lead Architect at JPMorganChase within Infrastructure Platforms, you are an integral part of a team that works to develop high-quality architecture solutions for cloud financial management platforms. You will drive significant business impact through your technical leadership, product vision, and ability to translate complex cloud utilization challenges into actionable engineering roadmaps.

Job responsibilities

• Product Ownership: Own the product roadmap for CloudVision's Utilization featureset, writing PRDs, setting priorities, and defining the vision for multi-cloud utilization visibility across AWS, Azure, GCP, and JPMC Private Cloud (Gaia)
• Technical Architecture: Design and guide the technical architecture for ingesting, processing, and visualizing utilization metrics including CPU, memory, GPU, network, and storage across diverse cloud platforms and services (EC2, RDS, EKS, Azure VMs, GCP Compute, Gaia application pools)
• Application Ownership: Serve as the application owner for Shakespeare, our cloud billing engine, ensuring it scales to support chargeback and transparency requirements across multiple cloud providers
• Engineering Leadership: Provide technical guidance and direction to an engineering squad of approximately 8 engineers, reviewing code, guiding design decisions, and ensuring delivery of high-quality, scalable solutions
• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with finance teams, LOB FinOps leads, and platform teams to understand requirements, communicate progress, and ensure CloudVision delivers measurable business value
• Technical Governance: Represent the product family in technical governance forums, providing feedback and proposing improvements to architecture standards and practices
• Innovation & Evaluation: Lead evaluation of new technologies and frameworks for big data processing, cloud cost management, and FinOps tooling, making recommendations that influence the platform's future state architecture
• Hands-On Contribution: Develop secure, high-quality production code and actively participate in code reviews, debugging, and troubleshooting to maintain operational stability
• Thought Leadership: Serve as a subject matter expert in cloud utilization, FinOps practices, and multi-cloud architecture, actively contributing to the engineering community and advocating for firmwide frameworks and best practices
• Culture Champion: Foster a team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect, mentoring engineers and promoting collaborative problem-solving

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Significant applied experience in software engineering, cloud architecture, or related technical roles with increasing responsibility
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability in cloud-native environments
• Advanced proficiency in one or more programming languages and frameworks, with practical experience in cloud application development
• Advanced knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP) with deep understanding of compute, storage, database, and container services
• Strong understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in cloud technologies
• Demonstrated ability to tackle complex design and functionality problems independently with minimal oversight
• Practical cloud-native experience building scalable, resilient applications on public cloud platforms
• Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies and recommend solutions that align with future state architecture goals
• FinOps expertise: Understanding of cloud financial management principles, cost allocation, chargeback models, and utilization optimization strategies
• Financial services experience: Prior experience working in a financial institution or highly regulated environment
• Commitment to fostering a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools, particularly Terraform
• Big data experience with large-scale data processing, ETL pipelines, and analytics platforms
• Proficiency in Java and familiarity with Spring Boot framework for backend services
• Experience with React framework for building modern web applications
• Prior product management or product ownership experience, including roadmap planning, PRD writing, and stakeholder management
• Cloud cost optimization knowledge and experience implementing cost-saving initiatives

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 ourFAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

About the Team

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.