Senior Lead Architect-Digital Architect

Testing Site - JPMC; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase, a leading financial services firm, seeks a Senior Lead Architect for the Merchant Payments team within Commercial Investment Banking. You will shape the target architecture across platforms and products, driving business impact through design leadership and strategic delivery.

The role requires strong experience across web/mobile architectures, APIs governance, identity management, and digital payment transformations.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software architecture and 5+ years of applied experience.

Responsibilities

• Engages business and technology stakeholders to propose design approaches for current and future needs.
• Builds relationships with decision makers to provide business and technical leadership.
• Identifies opportunities to modernize platform capabilities and align with business initiatives.
• Defines strategy and roadmap for product go-to-market and technical delivery breakdown.
• Defines target state of products and drives achievement of strategy.
• Participates in architecture governance bodies.
• Evaluates options to meet business needs and bring them to market.
• Delivers creative software solutions with advanced troubleshooting and design considerations.
• Identifies opportunities to reduce recurring issues and improve operational stability.
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors and internal teams to test architectural designs.
• Demonstrates practical cloud-native experience.

Skills

Architectural design

Digital transformation

Web/mobile frameworks

APIs and governance

Identity & access management

Merchant payments understanding

Cloud native experience

Vendor and governance leadership

Business requirements to delivery

Product/business architecture

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 JPMorgan Chase within the Merchant Payments team of Commercial Investment Banking org, youare an integral part of a team that works to develop high-quality architecture solutions for various software applications and platforms products. You drive significant business impact and help shape the target state architecture through your capabilities in multiple architecture domains.

Job responsibilities

• Engages business and technology stakeholder to discuss and propose design approaches to meet current and future needs of various business initiatives
• As a member of the team, build trusted relationships with business and technical decision makers in the customer’s organization to provide business and technical thought leadership,
• Identifies opportunities to modernize platform capabilities along with business initiatives
• Helps define strategy, roadmap for product go to market and breakdown of technical delivery
• Helps define the target state of their product and drives achievement of the strategy
• Participates in architecture governance bodies
• Evaluates recommendations and provides feedback on business needs, options to get to market
• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information
• Practical cloud native experience

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5 years applied experience
• Strategic mindset in shaping digital transformation for payments business - includes digital onboarding, self servicing experience for clients, partner integration
• Strong experience in web developer frameworks, web architecture, mobile frameworks
• Strong experience in APIs - api standards, functional, governance
• Strong experience in Identity and access management includes partner integration via APIs or web Strong experience in acquiring / merchant services payment understanding
• Experience with in-store or eCommerce merchant payments
• Ability to understand business requirements, create design, create technical delivery roadmap and technical know how's
• Strong technical background with design and delivery experience with software patterns and principles
• Advanced knowledge of one or more software, applications, and architecture disciplines
• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Experience as a functional architect (business / product)
• Experience with domain model, understands business process flow, client experience and use cases
• Understands business capability, features taxonomy

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Point of Sale experience is a plus.
• Biometrics experience is a plus
• Strong communication and leadership presence
• Cloud certification is a plus

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