Senior Lead Architect: Cloud & Infrastructure Resiliency

Testing Site - JPMC; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase within Corporate Technology’s Enterprise Architecture team seeks a Senior Lead Architect to drive target state architecture and global solutions. You influence executives, lead governance, and oversee platform design, development, testing, and operational stability for large consumer populations.

The role emphasizes cloud, security, resiliency, and regulatory alignment, with a focus on cost-efficient, scalable solutions across enterprise portfolios.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Extensive knowledge of cloud and infrastructure domains: compute, storage, networking, cloud, virtualization, security, resiliency, and automation.
• Demonstrated ability and knowledge of business continuity and disaster recovery concepts and practices, including SLA/OKR measurements.
• Demonstrated observability knowledge (Open Telemetry, distributed tracing) and resiliency metrics.
• Proven experience communicating and driving change across architecture disciplines (business, information, tech, data, application).
• Experience delivering shared platform design, development, testing, and operational stability for large-scale populations.
• Ability to evaluate technologies to fulfill business goals and target state architecture.
• Ability to embed regulatory, risk, and control requirements into infrastructure architecture with audit-ready evidence.

Responsibilities

• Advise executives and stakeholders, guiding architecture review boards for IT infrastructure tools.
• Serve as SME on IT Cloud & Infrastructure across applications, hosting, networking, and integration.
• Translate complex tech issues for leadership to enable strategic decisions on target state architecture.
• Drive adoption of modern technical methods aligned with product development practices.
• Lead governance body for architecture with compliance and change traceability.
• Create durable, reusable software frameworks to improve velocity and quality across teams.
• Evaluate current and emerging technologies to best support the future state architecture.
• Lead PoCs for emerging tech and vendors, advise on budgeting and cost savings.

Skills

Cloud & Infrastructure knowledge

Leadership communication

Architecture governance

Observability practices

Regulatory/compliance awareness

Budgeting/Cost awareness

Strategic thinking

Problem solving

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Puppet

Open Policy Agent/ Rego

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 Corporate Technology’s Enterprise Architecture team, you are an integral part of a team that develops high-quality architecture solutions for software applications and platform products. You drive significant business impact by advancing the adoption of complex, strategic global solutions, influencing target state architecture, and building consensus across teams. Your expertise helps shape the firm’s technology strategy and ensures scalable, durable solutions are available firmwide.

Job responsibilities:

• Advise and influence executives, stakeholders, and portfolio owners, leading architecture review boards to develop and maintain IT infrastructure tools across the enterprise, including selection, integration, and retirement.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on IT Cloud & Infrastructure, delivering technology capabilities and managing sprawl in areas such as Application Infrastructure, Hosting, Networking, Application Integration, and Hyperconverged Infrastructure.
• Translate highly complex technical issues, trends, and approaches to leadership to drive innovation and enable strategic, well-informed decisions about target state architecture.
• Drive adoption and implementation of technical methods in specialized fields in line with the latest product development methodologies.
• Establish and lead an architecture governance body, ensuring compliance and governance with architecture decision records and policies.
• Create durable, reusable software frameworks that improve velocity and quality of output across teams and functions.
• Evaluate current and emerging technologies to recommend the best technology solutions and approaches to achieve the future state architecture.
• Lead proof-of-concept initiatives for emerging technologies and vendors, advise on budgeting and financial impact, and identify cost savings opportunities.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Extensive knowledge of cloud and infrastructure domains: compute, storage, networking, cloud, virtualization, security, resiliency, and automation
• Demonstrated ability and knowledge of business continuity and disaster recovery concepts and practices, including their measurement through service-level agreements, objectives, and indicators
• Demonstrated ability and extensive knowledge of observability practices (e.g., Open Telemetry, distributed tracing) and defining/measuring resiliency factors such as availability and recovery
• Proven experience communicating and driving change across architecture disciplines (business, information, tech, data, application)
• Practical experience delivering shared platform design, development, testing, and operational stability to large scale consumer populations
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to recommend the best approaches to fulfill business goals and achieve the target state architecture
• Demonstrated ability to embed regulatory, risk, and control requirements into infrastructure architecture and provide audit-ready evidence, change traceability, and compliance reporting
• Extensive understanding of cell architecture and how to construct boundaries through existing capabilities like VPC Service Controls in GCP, or SCP's and network controls in AWS
• Extensive understanding of the niche and overlapping capabilities within the different cloud providers like GCP Cloud Run vs AWS Lambda, or Spanner vs RDS and how they can be architected appropriately for resiliency and security
• Extensive understanding of network and infrastructure capabilities that exist within the different cloud providers or exist in data center environments, inclusive of how they may be used to govern complex transit in regulated spaces, support compliance frameworks like HIPAA & PCI which includes architecture patterns and designs for low latency applications across multiple distributed application portfolios deployed using a variety of highly-distributed, yet secure and resilient manner

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• 5+ years applied experience in software-defined infrastructure
• 2+ years applied experience in software engineering
• Relevant Architecture certifications (e.g., TOGAF, AWS/Azure/GCP Architect, ITIL, CISSP, PMP)
• Expertise in "Infrastructure as Code" provisioning, automation, and policy enforcement frameworks (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Puppet, Open Policy Agent/OPA/Rego)