Senior Lead Architect-Securities Services

Aumni; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

J.P. Morgan is seeking a Senior Lead Solution Architect within Securities Services Engineering & Architecture.

The role spans functional, information and technical architecture to deliver high‑quality architectures for enterprise platforms under a strategic reengineering program. Responsibilities include engaging stakeholders, designing end-to-end architectures, applying AI to improve analysis, and aligning with firm-wide patterns and governance—while advocating architecture benefits across

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering or architecture concepts.
• Hands-on architecture experience across functional, information and technical domains.
• Strong data modeling, meta-modeling and data management knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Engage with stakeholders to articulate requirements and deliver robust solutions.
• Design end-to-end, enterprise-scale architectures with data modeling and migration.
• Apply AI tools to improve analysis, patterns, and architecture documentation.
• Ensure alignment with architecture patterns and governance across teams.
• Lead evaluation sessions with vendors and internal partners on designs.
• Identify opportunities to automate remediation and improve stability.
• Advocate architecture benefits through presentations and workshops.

Skills

Solution Architecture

Data Modeling

AI in Architecture

Java/Python

Cloud AWS

Data Governance

Lean/Agile

Communication

Tools

ERwin

PowerDesigner

MagicDraw

UML

Job description

As a Senior 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.
• Design and assess end-to-end solution architectures for enterprise-scale platforms, including data modeling, meta-modeling, master and reference data management, data quality, metadata management, data taxonomy, data integration, and data migration.
• 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.
• 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 ERwin, Power Designer, or MagicDraw.
• 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.
• Knowledge of core Solution Architecture capabilities: Master and Reference Data Management, Data Quality, Metadata Management, Data Taxonomy, Data Integration, Data Migration, and Data Modeling.
• 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.
• Demonstrated experience applying enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment in architecture and engineering workflows with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity.
• 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

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.

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. Lead teams to design and deliver high quality solution architectures that speed development and align platforms to firm wide standards.