Senior Lead Architect

Next Frontier Capital; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in the Corporate Sector (Trade Surveillance) seeks a Senior Lead Architect to shape target state architecture across product families. You drive governance, provide technical guidance to teams, and advance AI-enabled, secure engineering practices.

Responsibilities include evaluating technologies, influencing design, and delivering high-quality production code while upholding SDLC standards and data-sensitivity controls.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on architecture concepts with 5+ years of applied experience.
• Hands-on experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operations.
• Advanced in one or more programming languages and architectures across cloud, AI, mobile, etc.
• Experience applying AI capabilities in architecture with strong validation and data sensitivity awareness.
• Ability to integrate AI-enabled capabilities into enterprise-grade architectures with resiliency and auditability.
• Ability to tackle design problems independently with minimal oversight.
• Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to choose the best future-state solutions.
• Strong judgment and communication skills to influence technical direction.

Responsibilities

• Represents a product family in governance and proposes improvements to architecture governance practices.
• Regularly provides technical guidance to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors.
• Leverages enterprise-authorized AI capabilities with human-in-the-loop validation and data sensitivity handling.
• Guides evaluation of current and new technologies using existing standards and frameworks to adopt leading-edge solutions.
• Drives decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes.
• Develops secure and high-quality production code and reviews and debugs code written by others.
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert and advocates SDLC frameworks and practices.
• Establishes reuse-first AI-enabled engineering patterns and governance with traceability, resiliency, and security controls.

Skills

Architecture concepts

System design

Programming languages

AI in architecture

Security & auditability

Independent work

Technical leadership

Education

Architecture concepts training

Tools

SDLC tooling

Enterprise architecture tools

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 JPMorganChase within the Corporate Sector(Trade Surveillance), you are an integral part of a team that works to develop high-quality architecture solutions for various software applications and platforms products. You drive significant business impact and help shape the target state architecture through your capabilities in multiple architecture domains.

Job Responsibilities

• Represents a product family in technical governance bodies and proposes improvements to architecture governance practices
• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Leverages enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate architecture analysis and decisioning across the product family, with human-in-the-loop validation and appropriate handling of sensitive data.
• Guides evaluation of current and new technologies using existing standards and frameworks, influencing peers and decision-makers to adopt leading-edge solutions where appropriate
• Drives decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert and contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide SDLC frameworks and practices
• 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
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s) and deep expertise in software architecture, applications, and technical processes within one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Demonstrated experience applying enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment in architecture and engineering workflows with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity.
• Ability to evaluate and integrate AI-enabled capabilities into enterprise-grade architectures while meeting resiliency, security, and auditability requirements.
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to select or recommend the best solutions for the future state architecture
• Strong judgment and communication skills to influence technical direction across teams

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience leading architecture modernization, platform transformation, or cloud adoption initiatives.
• Strong financial services and enterprise technology experience.
• Experience establishing architecture standards, governance practices, and reusable enterprise 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 as Senior Vice President Application Architect, shape strategy, advise partners, govern decisions, and promote automation