Senior Lead Architect

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

Job summary

JPMorganChase in Jersey City seeks a Senior Lead Architect to drive target state architecture across product families. You will provide leadership on governance, guide teams, and leverage AI capabilities while ensuring data sensitivity and security across projects.

This role emphasizes broad influence over design, operations, and technology selection. You will collaborate with global teams to shape architecture across cloud, AI/ML, and mobile domains, delivering high-quality solutions with a

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 proficiency in one or more programming languages and deep expertise in software architecture, applications, and technical processes.

Responsibilities

• Represent a product family in technical governance bodies and propose improvements to architecture governance practices.
• Provide regular technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors.
• Leverage enterprise-authorized AI capabilities to accelerate architecture analysis and decisioning with human-in-the-loop validation.
• Guide evaluation of current and new technologies using standards and frameworks to adopt leading-edge solutions.
• Drive decisions that influence product design, application functionality and operations.
• Develop secure and high-quality production code and review code written by others.
• Serve as a function-wide SME and advocate for firmwide software development lifecycle practices.
• Promote reuse-first, AI-assisted practices with human review and delivery alignment.
• Use AI capabilities to accelerate program planning and risk synthesis with data sensitivity handling.

Skills

Architecture concepts

Software architecture

Cloud

Artificial intelligence

Machine learning

Communication

Independent problem solving

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 Infrastructure Platforms International Services organization, you are an integral part of a team that works to develop high-quality architecture solutions for various software applications and platform products. You drive significant business impact and help shape the target state architecture through your capabilities in multiple architecture domains.

Job responsibilities

• Represent a product family in technical governance bodies and propose improvements to architecture governance practices
• Provide regular technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Leverage 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
• Guide evaluation of current and new technologies using existing standards and frameworks, influencing peers and decision-makers to adopt leading-edge solutions where appropriate
• Drive decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Develop secure and high-quality production code, and review and debug code written by others
• Serve as a function-wide subject matter expert and contribute to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide software development lifecycle frameworks and practices
• Promote reuse-first, AI-assisted practices for program governance and reporting, ensuring human review and alignment to delivery standards
• Use enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate program planning and risk synthesis — such as consolidating inputs into integrated plans, risk and issue logs, and executive-ready updates — validating outputs and handling data according to sensitivity requirements

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 proficiency in one or more programming languages and deep expertise in software architecture, applications, and technical processes within one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile)
• Demonstrated experience using enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to support program management workflows, with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity
• Ability to review and validate AI-assisted plans, risks, and recommendations before use, escalating when uncertain and following data handling expectations
• 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

• General knowledge of technology regulations, high-level business and technical characteristics in the Europe, Middle East and Africa and Latin America and Canada regions, or experience working with internal technology clients and partners in these locations (e.g., Switzerland, Luxembourg, Türkiye, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Argentina)
• Familiarity with cross-regional compliance and data residency considerations that impact architecture decisions in international environments
• Experience engaging with globally distributed teams and navigating multi-jurisdictional technology delivery
• Knowledge of emerging architecture patterns and their applicability to large-scale, internationally distributed infrastructure platforms