Senior Lead Architect — AI-Driven Enterprise Platform

Socket.dev; New Jersey; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health care coverage

On-site health and wellness centers

Retirement savings plan

Backup childcare

Tuition reimbursement

Mental health support

Financial coaching

Job summary

JPMorganChase seeks a Senior Lead Architect to drive target-state architecture across Employee Platforms, shaping agentic AI capabilities for a 3000+ technology organization. You will guide governance, assess technologies, and deliver secure, production-grade AI-enabled solutions in public cloud environments.

You will collaborate with product teams, security, and platform owners, balancing strategic design with hands-on delivery to create reusable patterns and measurable business value.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on architecture concepts.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• Architect and build custom agentic systems that support Employee Platforms use cases across employee experience, workflow automation, knowledge discovery, service operations.
• Design prototypes, reference implementations, reusable patterns, and evaluation harnesses that help engineering teams move agentic AI capabilities safely from concept to production.
• Implement AI and agentic solution patterns in public cloud environments, with practical attention to APIs, data access, deployment automation, observability, resilience, and operational support.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

AI/agentic architecture

Public cloud implementation

Technical governance

Strong communication

LLMs / AI foundations

Hands-on development

Security and auditability

Education

Architecture certifications

Tools

Public cloud platforms

Job description

JPMorganChase seeks a Senior Lead Architect to drive target-state architecture across Employee Platforms, shaping agentic AI capabilities for a 3000+ technology organization. You will guide governance, assess technologies, and deliver secure, production-grade AI-enabled solutions in public cloud environments.

You will collaborate with product teams, security, and platform owners, balancing strategic design with hands-on delivery to create reusable patterns and measurable business value.