Lead Architect, Connected Commerce

Testing Site - JPMC; Wilmington (DE); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in the United States seeks a Senior Lead Architect within the Card division of Consumer & Community Banking to shape high-quality architecture solutions for software applications and platform products across the organization.

You will lead cross-functional architecture teams, drive strategic thinking, and align projects with fiscal and technical aims while collaborating with global technologists to deliver innovative digital commerce solutions.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Experience building microservices on cloud/distributed environments.
• Experience in architecting scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• Experience designing batch and streaming data pipelines.
• UI/UX architecture experience with React or Angular.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product teams to design high-quality architecture across platforms.
• Lead cross-functional architecture teams and align projects for fiscal and technical soundness.
• Create comprehensive architecture diagrams and technical design specifications.
• Evaluate technologies and tools to meet future state needs.
• Ensure security standards and data protection best practices are followed.
• Engage stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Define the technical target state and drive implementation of solutions.

Skills

Microservices

Cloud/distributed

UI/UX Architecture

CI/CD

Security

Analytics

Architecture leadership

Problem solving

Tools

AWS

React

Angular

TOGAF

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 Senior Lead Architect at JPMorgan Chase within the Card division of Consumer & Community Banking, you are an integral part of a team that works to develop high-quality architecture solutions for various software applications and platform products. Your passion for technology and drive for innovation will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of global digital commerce. You will provide essential leadership and strategic thinking, collaborating with teams of architects to align cross-functional projects, ensuring they are both fiscally and technically sound. Your contributions will have a substantial and positive impact, whether working in-house, collaborating with technologists across JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s global technology community, or partnering with leading tech firms worldwide.

Job Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the product team within the Lifestyle space to enhance customer Dining experiences through Chase channels and the Infatuation
• Develop new system designs, ensuring necessary approvals and collaborating with engineering towards delivery
• Engage with marketing platforms and understand customer engagement through automated orchestration
• Act as an ambassador for the product, demonstrating enthusiasm for technology
• Manage stakeholder relationships to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions
• Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation, including architecture diagrams and design specifications
• Evaluate and recommend new technologies and tools to enhance solution architecture and meet business needs
• Ensure solutions adhere to security standards and compliance requirements, implementing best practices for data protection
• Engage technical teams and business stakeholders to discuss and propose technical approaches to meet current and future needs
• Define the technical target state of their product and drive achievement of the strategy, and 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
• Lead evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Demonstrated proficiency in building Microservices on cloud/distributed environments
• Experience in architecting and building highly scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems
• Experience in designing and building batch and streaming pipelines to process data
• Experience in UI/UX Architecture – Frontend application design using React or Angular
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle including automated end-to-end and performance testing
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Practical cloud-native experience, preferably AWS
• Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to recommend the best solutions for the future state architecture
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills to address technical challenges and find innovative solutions

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Experience in modeling languages like UML or C4 model and knowledge of EA frameworks like TOGAF is preferable
• AWS Certification preferred
• Advanced in one or more programming languages like Java, React, or Python