Technology CDAO - Solution Architect

J.P. Morgan; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

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 Sr Solutions Architect at JPMorgan Chase within the Technology Chief Data Office (CDO), youare responsible for designing and overseeing the implementation of our Technical Data Lakehouse and developing software for our supporting services that meet both technical and business requirements. You will provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams, ensuring adherence to best practices in software development and architecture. Collaborating closely with stakeholders, they translate business needs into technical specifications and evaluate tools and technologies to recommend optimal solutions. The architect ensures system scalability, performance, and security, while also managing the integration of new systems with existing infrastructure. You will also create and maintain appropriate documentation, address technical issues, and stay updated with industry trends to drive innovation and continuous improvement in software solutions.

Job responsibilities

• Provides feedback and proposes improvements to architecture governance practices
• Guides evaluation of current technology and leads evaluation of new technologies using existing standards and frameworks
• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Creates complex and scalable coding solutions using appropriate software design frameworks
• Drives 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
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s), applications, and architecture
• Advanced knowledge of software architecture, applications, and technical processes with considerable 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
• Exposure to cloud technologies (AWS or GCP) via hands on experience or certification
• Hands-on experience in data lake or data warehouse and related technologies (e.g. Spark, ETL, Databricks).

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Hands on exposure to metadata process & technology as well as a background in data management and data quality
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability