Lead Architect - Securities Services

JPMorganChase; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Senior Lead Solution Architect to join the Securities Services Engineering & Architecture team in Glasgow. You will drive cross-functional design and assessment of high-quality architectures underpinning strategic platform reengineering for the Securities Services business.

The role spans functional, information, and technical architecture and requires leadership across multiple streams, strong communication, and hands-on experience with data modeling,

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering or architecture concepts.
• Hands-on solution architecture experience across functional, information, and technical dimensions.
• Knowledge of data architecture options including ODS, Data Lake, Data Catalog, Data Warehousing, OLTP and OLAP.
• Proficiency in Master/Reference Data Management, Data Quality, Metadata Management, Data Taxonomy, Data Integration, Data Migration, and Data Modeling.
• Proven ability to apply AI/ML techniques to architecture and engineering workflows.
• Experience with Java, Python or C++, XML/JSON, and SQL/Oracle/Cassandra/Public Cloud.
• Strong financial services domain knowledge across trading middle office, prime brokerage, custody, and derivatives.
• Experience with lean/agile development, CI/CD, and architecture governance.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills across business and technology stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Engage with stakeholders to articulate and realize secure, robust solutions.
• Design and assess end-to-end architectures for enterprise-scale platforms.
• Apply AI tools to accelerate requirements analysis, pattern identification, and architecture documentation.
• Ensure conformance with firm-wide and sub-LOB architecture standards and patterns.
• Lead architecture evaluation sessions with vendors and internal teams.
• Identify opportunities to improve operational stability and automate remediation.
• Advocate for reuse of AI-enabled engineering patterns across the SDLC.
• Ensure security, resiliency, and auditability in all architectural work.

Skills

Solution Architecture

Data Modeling

AI in Architecture

Java/Python/C++

Cloud Data Platforms

Financial Services

Agile/CI-CD

Communication Skills

Education

Software Architecture Certification

Tools

ERwin

PowerDesigner

MagicDraw

Job description

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 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

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 our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

About The Team

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.