Senior Enterprise Architect: Governance & Reusable Patterns

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

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.