Lead Cloud & AI Architect for Secure, Scalable Systems

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

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking a Lead Architect in Jersey City to join the CTO - IAM space.

You will be a core technical contributor, shaping high-quality architecture solutions for software applications on modern cloud-based technologies and driving critical architecture decisions across multiple business functions. The role emphasizes secure production code development, SDLC governance, and integration of AI-enabled capabilities with strong validation and data sensitivity awareness.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on architecture 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).
• Proficient across SDLC execution, including automation/continuous delivery practices and agile methods such as CI/CD, application resiliency, and security.
• Demonstrated proficiency within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, AI, ML, mobile) and ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to recommend future-state solutions.
• Experience applying enterprise-enabled AI capabilities within 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.
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems.

Responsibilities

• Engages technical teams and business stakeholders to discuss and propose technical approaches to meet current and future needs
• Defines the technical target state of their product and drives achievement of the strategy
• Leverages 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.
• Evaluates recommendations and provides 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
• Executes 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
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• 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.

Skills

Architecture concepts

System design

Cloud technologies

AI/ML in software

Programming languages

SDLC & CI/CD

Security practices

Data sensitivity awareness

Education

Architecture certification

Tools

CI/CD tools

Cloud platforms

Security tooling

AI governance

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking a Lead Architect in Jersey City to join the CTO - IAM space.

You will be a core technical contributor, shaping high-quality architecture solutions for software applications on modern cloud-based technologies and driving critical architecture decisions across multiple business functions. The role emphasizes secure production code development, SDLC governance, and integration of AI-enabled capabilities with strong validation and data sensitivity awareness.