Senior Lead Architect- Architecture Governance

Aumni; Jersey City (NJ); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Senior Lead Architect to join the Infrastructure Platforms - Data & Specialty Services (DSS) team. You will drive governance, design scalable, secure architectures, and mentor engineers in a hybrid technology environment.

The role requires hands-on delivery, significant experience in cloud and engineering practices, and the ability to influence across product, security, risk, and operations teams.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on architecture concepts.
• 5+ years applied experience in architecture concepts.
• Experience executing architecture governance processes (RFCs, ADRs, controls traceability).
• Experience with enterprise, software, and infrastructure architecture across cloud, compute, network, platforms, and resiliency engineering.
• Hands-on delivery experience in complex production environments.

Responsibilities

• Execute and continuously improve DSS architecture governance processes, including RFCs, ADRs, controls traceability, and auditable decision records; partner with Principal Architects and governance teams.
• Plan and run architecture governance forums with agenda/materials, attendance management, minutes, and decision follow-through.
• Drive architecture decisions that influence product design, operations, and engineering processes balancing risk, cost, and reliability.
• Develop and maintain architecture models, reusable patterns, reference implementations, and design guidance for platforms and technical products.
• Apply enterprise-authorized AI capabilities to accelerate architecture analysis with human-in-the-loop validation and proper data handling.
• Provide technical architecture guidance to product, engineering, operations, security, risk, control, contractor, and vendor teams.
• Remain hands-on in technical delivery with proficiency in at least one programming language and CI/CD tooling; contribute to prototypes and automation.
• Mentor and collaborate with colleagues to promote reuse of architecture patterns and tooling.

Skills

Architecture governance

Cloud architecture

Enterprise architecture

AI capabilities in architecture

Programming languages

CI/CD tooling

Education

Formal training or certification on architecture concepts

Tools

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

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 Infrastructure Platforms - Data & Specialty Services (DSS), you are an integral part of an architecture team that develops high-quality architecture solutions for software applications, platforms, and technical products. You are responsible for executing and continuously improving DSS architecture governance processes, partnering with Principal Architects, architecture governance teams, engineers, and product teams to improve the quality, consistency, and traceability of architectural decisions. You will work in a diverse hybrid technology environment, using sound technical judgment to guide design decisions, improve reuse of strategic IP platforms and services, and ensure that solutions are secure, resilient, scalable, and operationally ready.

Job Responsibilities

• Execute and continuously improve DSS architecture governance processes, including RFCs, ADRs, controls traceability, and auditable decision records; partner with other Principal Architects and architecture governance teams to mature these practices.
• Plan and run DSS architecture governance forums, including agenda and material preparation, attendance management, minutes, voting coordination, action-item tracking, decision follow-through, and stakeholder communications.
• Drive architecture decisions that influence product design, application functionality, technical operations, and engineering processes, balancing delivery speed, resiliency, security, operational stability, cost, maintainability, and strategic alignment.
• Develop and maintain architecture models, reusable patterns, reference implementations, and design guidance for platforms and technical products that make secure and compliant delivery easier for engineering teams.
• Apply enterprise-authorized AI capabilities to accelerate architecture analysis, impact assessment, and engineering practices, with human-in-the-loop validation, appropriate handling of sensitive data, and effective resiliency, security, and auditability controls.
• Provide technical architecture guidance to product, engineering, operations, security, risk, control, contractor, and vendor teams, helping them prepare well-reasoned decisions and high-quality architecture artefacts for governance.
• Remain hands-on in technical delivery, with proficiency in at least one programming language and CI/CD tooling; contribute to prototypes, automation, infrastructure definitions, and reusable patterns as needed.
• Contribute to the architecture and engineering community by mentoring and collaborating with technical colleagues, sharing knowledge and skills, and promoting reuse of architecture patterns, tooling, and solutions.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Formal training or certification on architecture concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Experience executing architecture governance processes, including RFCs, ADRs, controls traceability, architecture reviews, and auditable decision records.
• Ability to continuously improve architecture governance processes through practical standards, tooling, and automation.
• Experience applying enterprise-authorized agentic AI capabilities, including agentic skills and relevant context, to improve architecture governance workflows.
• Experience with enterprise, software, and infrastructure architecture across cloud, compute, network, platforms, and resiliency engineering.
• Expertise in architecture modeling for platforms and technical products.
• Experience making and documenting architecture decisions, including trade-offs across availability, performance, security, cost, maintainability, and regulatory or control requirements.
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application or platform development, testing, and operational stability in complex, production environments.
• Hands-on experience with AWS and infrastructure as code using Terraform and
• Proficiency in at least one programming language and practical experience with CI/CD tooling, automation, and software delivery practices.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Experience architecting or modernizing mission-critical platforms supporting infrastructure services, financial transaction processing, payments, enterprise data, electronic trading, or high-volume digital workflows.
• Experience with platform engineering, self-service capabilities, service catalogs, reusable infrastructure patterns, and API or event-driven integration.
• Experience with infrastructure inventory, metadata, data quality, lineage, data contracts, data mesh or data-product practices, and analytical or operational data platforms.
• Hands-on experience designing agentic AI capabilities, including reusable agent skills, Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations, context engineering, and related tools and controls.
• Strong judgment and communication skills to influence technical direction across teams.

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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 architecture governance and drive impactful solutions for mission-critical hybrid platforms.