Senior Solution Architect - Enterprise AI/Data Architecture

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase Glasgow seeks a Senior Lead Solution Architect to design and assess end-to-end architectures supporting the Securities Services platforms within the Commercial & Investment Bank. You will work across functional, information, and technical domains, aligning with firm-wide patterns and standards.

Responsibilities include engaging stakeholders, leading architecture governance, and driving AI-enabled engineering patterns while ensuring security, resiliency, and auditability across

Qualifications

• 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.

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.

Skills

Solution Architecture

Java

Python

Data Modeling

UML

Cloud AWS

CI/CD

Communication

Security

AI in architecture

SQL

Oracle

Cassandra

XML/JSON

Tools

ERwin

PowerDesigner

MagicDraw

Job description

JPMorganChase Glasgow seeks a Senior Lead Solution Architect to design and assess end-to-end architectures supporting the Securities Services platforms within the Commercial & Investment Bank. You will work across functional, information, and technical domains, aligning with firm-wide patterns and standards.

Responsibilities include engaging stakeholders, leading architecture governance, and driving AI-enabled engineering patterns while ensuring security, resiliency, and auditability across