Senior Lead Architect – Card-Present Payments & AI

Next Frontier Capital; 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

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