Lead Architect-Solution Architecture

Next Frontier Capital; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in the Corporate Sector seeks a Lead Architect to drive architecture reviews for high-impact initiatives, establish scalable standards, and govern secure cloud patterns across engineering, cybersecurity, and risk.

You will lead an architecture council, enable automation and AI-enabled engineering, and ensure decisions are documented with measurable outcomes, balancing speed with security in a regulated financial services environment.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on architecture concepts.
• Strong knowledge of cloud architecture and modern API design, including secure integration and resilience.
• Proven ability to design secure data flows in regulated environments.
• Experience producing reference architectures and reusable standards.

Responsibilities

• Design and publish reference architectures and reusable patterns for enterprise scenarios and secure data flows.
• Lead architecture reviews end-to-end, identifying risks and driving documented decisions with security and risk stakeholders.
• Establish scalable governance through checklists and criteria to improve consistency and reduce rework.
• Co-lead an architecture council to maintain standards and escalation paths.
• Provide direction for automation and AI initiatives aligning with secure-by-design principles.
• Define and publish outcome-based metrics like review cycle time and pattern reuse rate.
• Evaluate third-party products for architectural fit, security posture, and integration approach.
• Partner with delivery teams to drive adoption of approved patterns in engineering workflows.
• Identify opportunities to automate remediation and improve operational stability of software systems.
• Establishes reuse-first AI-enabled engineering patterns with traceability and security controls.

Skills

Architecture concepts

Cloud architecture

Secure data flows

Reference architectures

Stakeholder collaboration

Technical writing

Azure architecture

Networking security

Automation architecture

AI-enabled patterns

Financial services domain

Education

Formal training or certification on architecture concepts

Tools

AWS

Azure

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.

As a Lead Architect at JPMorganChase within the Corporate Sector, enterprise architecture and governance function, you will lead architecture reviews for high-impact initiatives and set scalable standards teams can reuse. You will partner across engineering, cybersecurity, and risk functions to identify key architectural risks early and drive clear, well-documented outcomes. You will also establish measurable processes and metrics that improve delivery speed while strengthening resilience, security, and regulatory readiness.

You will shape how complex, regulated platforms are designed, reviewed, and approved—so delivery teams can move faster without compromising security or control. By creating reusable standards and repeatable governance, you will reduce rework, improve consistency, and help teams make high-quality architecture decisions with confidence.

Job responsibilities

• Design and publish reference architectures and reusable patterns for recurring enterprise scenarios, including third-party connectivity, identity federation (OAuth 2.0/OpenID Connect and mutual TLS), and secure data flows involving personally identifiable information and Know Your Customer data
• Lead architecture and high-level design reviews end-to-end, identifying architecturally significant risks and driving timely, documented decisions in partnership with cybersecurity and risk stakeholders
• Establish scalable governance through self-service checklists and pre-review criteria that improve consistency, reduce avoidable rework, and keep senior review focused on novel risk
• Co-lead an architecture council model that maintains standards, decision records, and an escalation path for cross-cutting architecture topics
• Provide architectural direction for automation and artificial intelligence initiatives, ensuring designs align to governed execution patterns and secure-by-design principles
• Define, publish, and continuously improve outcome-based metrics such as review cycle time, pattern reuse rate, remediation throughput, and time-to-approval
• Evaluate third-party products and services for architectural fit, security posture, and integration approach, enabling informed decisions that balance speed, resilience, and risk
• Partner with delivery teams to drive adoption of approved patterns through enablement, practical guidance, and integration into engineering workflows
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• 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 architecture concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Strong knowledge of cloud architecture (Amazon Web Services) and modern application programming interface design, including secure integration approaches and failure-aware design
• Demonstrated ability to design secure data flows and controls for sensitive data in regulated environments
• Proven track record producing reference architectures and reusable standards that multiple teams adopted and reused
• Experience partnering with cybersecurity, risk, and compliance stakeholders to reach documented, defensible architecture outcomes
• Excellent written communication skills, including producing high-quality design documents, decision records, and executive-ready summaries
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure architecture and secure design patterns in a multi-cloud context
• Understanding of network architecture and security design principles supporting complex integrations
• Familiarity with automation architecture concepts, including robotic process automation patterns and associated control considerations
• Ability to evaluate and integrate AI-enabled capabilities into cloud-native architectures while meeting resiliency, security, and auditability requirements.
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with artificial intelligence or machine learning platform architecture, agentic automation frameworks, or Model Context Protocol-style integrations
• Experience building or scaling an architecture practice, governance council, or standards program (beyond delivering individual projects)
• Data platform and connectivity experience (for example, document databases, business intelligence tooling, or external registry integrations)
• Experience designing and measuring process improvements that materially reduce approval times and increase reuse of vetted patterns

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

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.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success. Lead enterprise architecture governance for regulated platforms, enabling secure integrations, automation, and reusable standards.