Senior Lead Architect - AI/ML & Data Strategy

JPMorgan Chase; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 176,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Senior Lead Architect to design and govern enterprise-scale AI/ML and data engineering solutions across software applications and platform products. You will drive architectural decisions, champion secure coding practices, and ensure regulatory compliance in a fast-paced financial services environment.

The role emphasizes agentic AI systems, multi-agent patterns, and observability within a regulated context, requiring strong communication across teams and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on architecture concepts and 5+ years applied experience in AI/ML, cloud, and data engineering.
• Minimum 12+ years of hands-on experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Experience designing and deploying production AI/ML systems, including LLM-based applications, embedding pipelines, vector stores, and agentic architectures.
• Strong programming skills in Java and Python and knowledge of data architectures in cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Represent product families in technical governance bodies and AI risk management practices.
• Provide strategic technical guidance to stakeholders, engineering teams, contractors, and vendors.
• Leverage AI/ML capabilities to accelerate architecture analysis and solution delivery with human-in-the-loop validation.
• Guide evaluation and integration of current and emerging technologies in AI/ML and cloud-native solutions.
• Develop secure, high-quality production code for data-intensive AI-driven applications.

Skills

AI/ML

Cloud

Data engineering

Java

Python

LLMs

Epochal AI

Education

Advanced architecture certification

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Kubernetes

Spark

Airflow

Job description

JPMorganChase is seeking a Senior Lead Architect to design and govern enterprise-scale AI/ML and data engineering solutions across software applications and platform products. You will drive architectural decisions, champion secure coding practices, and ensure regulatory compliance in a fast-paced financial services environment.

The role emphasizes agentic AI systems, multi-agent patterns, and observability within a regulated context, requiring strong communication across teams and stakeholders.