Senior Lead Architect - Card Present

Aumni; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Base salary with incentives

Health and wellness programs

Retirement savings plan

Tuition reimbursement

On-site facilities

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Senior Lead Architect within the Commercial & Investment Bank Payments Technology group. You will shape target-state architecture across multiple domains and drive enterprise-quality solutions at enterprise scale.

You will provide technical governance, mentor teams, and embed AI-enabled patterns while ensuring security, resiliency, and auditability. The role emphasizes strategic thinking, independent design, and collaboration with product, engineering, and business

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on architecture concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Hands-on experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Advanced in one or more programming languages and deep expertise in software architecture and technical processes.
• Experience applying enterprise AI capabilities within architecture and engineering workflows with validation habits.
• Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies and influence decisions.
• Strong judgment and communication skills to influence technical direction.

Responsibilities

• Represent a product family in technical governance bodies and propose improvements to architecture governance practices.
• Provide technical guidance to business teams, contractors, and vendors.
• Leverage AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate architecture analysis with human-in-the-loop validation.
• Guide evaluation of current and new technologies and influence adoption of leading-edge solutions.
• Drive decisions affecting product design, functionality, and technical operations.
• Develop secure, high-quality production code and review others' code.
• Serve as a subject matter expert and advocate for firmwide software development lifecycle practices.
• Establish reuse-first AI-enabled engineering patterns with traceability, auditability, and security controls.

Skills

Architecture governance

Technical leadership

AI capabilities integration

Software design

Security and auditability

Communication across teams

Job description

Join our team to shape the future of payments architecture, driving innovation and delivering high-impact solutions at enterprise scale.

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 Commercial & Investment Bank(Payments Technology), 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
• Regularly provide 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
• Establish reuse-first AI-enabled engineering patterns and governance across software development lifecycle and 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 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 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 in point-of-sale systems and card-present processing
• Experience in device and estate management
• Strategic mindset in acquiring payments business, including value-added services for optimizing payments, risk, vault, tokenization, and other payment protection solutions such as encryption and 3D Secure
• Experience with in-store or eCommerce merchant payments

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. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

• Base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location.
• 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.
• 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

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

J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world. Shape the future of data architecture & analytics. Drive innovation and deliver high-impact enterprise reporting at scale.