Lead Architect, Blockchain Technology

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Jersey City is seeking a hands-on Lead Architect to drive the technical target state for key products and capabilities.

You will work with engineering teams to design, build, and evolve secure, resilient solutions that meet current business needs while enabling future growth. You will leverage enterprise-authorized AI capabilities to accelerate architecture discovery, with strong human-in-the-loop validation and careful handling of sensitive data.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on architecture concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Proficiency across software development life cycle execution, including automation and CI/CD, with emphasis on resilience and security.
• Demonstrated proficiency in a technical discipline (cloud, AI/ML, or mobile) and evaluating technologies for future-state solutions.
• Experience applying enterprise AI capabilities in software engineering and architecture workflows with strong validation and data-sensitivity awareness.
• Ability to evaluate and integrate AI-enabled capabilities into cloud-native architectures with resiliency and security.
• Hands-on experience with public blockchain ledger platforms including Ethereum (Solidity, EVM) and Layer 1/Layer 2 chains such as Solana.
• Knowledge of broader blockchain tooling: wallets, RPC providers, block explorers, indexers, and on-chain/off-chain integration patterns.

Responsibilities

• Engage technical teams and business stakeholders to discuss and propose technical approaches to meet current and future needs.
• Define the technical target state of your product and drive achievement of the strategy.
• Leverage enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate architecture discovery and decisioning, with human-in-the-loop validation and appropriate handling of sensitive data.
• Evaluate recommendations and provide feedback on new technologies, including outcomes-oriented evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to assess architectural designs and applicability within existing systems and information.
• Execute creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to think beyond routine approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems.
• Develop secure and high-quality production code, and review and debug code written by others.
• Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems.
• Establish reuse-first AI-enabled engineering patterns and governance across SDLC and toolchain practices, ensuring traceability, auditability, resiliency, and security controls.

Skills

Architecture

System design

CI/CD

Cloud

AI capabilities

Security

Blockchain

Ethereum

Solidity

Smart contracts

Education

Architecture certification

Tools

Blockchain tooling

RPC providers

Block explorers

Smart contract deployment pipelines

Job description

A career with us is a journey, not a destination. This could be the next best step in your technical career. Join us.

You are a hands-on architect with a passion for building robust solutions and a keen eye for detail. You thrive on solving complex technical challenges, partnering closely with engineers and stakeholders, and applying emerging technology thoughtfully to deliver measurable outcomes in a highly controlled environment.

As a Lead Architect at JPMorganChase within the Kinexys team in the Commercial & Investment Bank, you will define and drive the technical target state for key products and capabilities. You will work side-by-side with engineering teams to design, build, and evolve secure and resilient solutions that meet business needs today while preparing for future growth. You will leverage enterprise-authorized artificial intelligence capabilities to accelerate architecture discovery and decision-making, applying strong human-in-the-loop validation and careful handling of sensitive data.

Job responsibilities

• Engage technical teams and business stakeholders to discuss and propose technical approaches to meet current and future needs
• Define the technical target state of your product and drive achievement of the strategy
• Leverage enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate architecture discovery and decisioning, with human-in-the-loop validation and appropriate handling of sensitive data
• Evaluate recommendations and provide feedback on new technologies, including outcomes-oriented evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to assess architectural designs and applicability within existing systems and information
• Execute creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Develop secure and high-quality production code, and review and debug code written by others
• Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Establish reuse-first AI-enabled engineering patterns and governance across software development life cycle and toolchain practices, ensuring traceability, auditability, resiliency, and security controls

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on architecture concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Proficiency across software development life cycle execution, including automation and continuous delivery practices and agile methods such as continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), application resiliency, and security
• Demonstrated proficiency within a technical discipline (for example, cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, or mobile) and ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to recommend future-state solutions
• Experience applying enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment in software engineering and architecture workflows, with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity
• Ability to evaluate and integrate AI-enabled capabilities into cloud-native architectures while meeting resiliency, security, and auditability requirements
• Hands-on experience with public blockchain ledger platforms including Ethereum (Solidity, Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)) and alternative Layer 1/Layer 2 chains such as Solana, covering smart contract development, deployment pipelines, and token standards (ERC-20, ERC-721)
• Practical knowledge of the broader blockchain ecosystem tooling, including wallets, remote procedure call (RPC) providers, block explorers, indexers, and on-chain/off-chain integration patterns

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with blockchain protocols, smart contract development, and decentralized application integration
• Experience with cloud migration, multi-cloud strategies, and cloud security best practices
• Familiarity with modern front-end technologies
• Exposure to emerging technologies in financial services
• Advanced proficiency in one or more programming languages