Senior Lead Architect-Enterprise Architecture

Testing Site - JPMC; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase Corporate Technology in Jersey City seeks a Senior Lead Architect to shape platforms from concept to production. You will set architecture direction, drive resilient systems, and translate complex tradeoffs into actionable plans.

You will produce ADRs, HLDs/LLDs, lead design reviews, and embed NFRs like RTO/RPO, SLO/SLI, and MTTR into designs, while guiding CI/CD and IaC practices with AI/ML integration patterns.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering with 5+ years of applied experience
• Backend: Java/Spring, REST, Python, messaging, caching
• Frontend: React, MFEs, performance and error boundary patterns
• Databases: relational (Oracle, Cockroach) and graph (Neo4J, TigerGraph) and data lakes
• Proven ability to produce HLDs/LLDs and enforce architecture via reviews
• Resiliency patterns: circuit breakers, retries, idempotency, DR strategies
• Observability: metrics, traces, logs; SRE-style reliability practices
• CI/CD, IaC, containers/orchestration, secure SDLC
• AI/ML tooling experience to boost productivity, GenAI patterns

Responsibilities

• Define target and transitional architectures and guardrails for resiliency across layers
• Lead solution design from concept to production with ADRs, HLDs, LLDs
• Run design councils, perform reviews, manage risk with remediation plans
• Guide implementation details: service boundaries, API contracts, data models
• Ensure designs include HA/DR, observability, capacity and performance
• Embed resiliency NFRs (RTO/RPO, SLO/SLI, MTTR) into designs and tests
• Identify automation opportunities and AI/ML integration patterns within security guardrails

Skills

Java/Spring

REST

Python

React

MFEs

HLD/LLD docs

Observability

CI/CD

Security SDLC

AI/ML tooling

Education

Software engineering certification

Formal software architecture training

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Infrastructure as Code

Containerization / Kubernetes

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 in Corporate Technology, you’ll shape how our platforms are designed and built—from early concepts through production. You’ll set clear architecture direction, help teams deliver resilient systems, and turn complex technical tradeoffs into practical plans that improve reliability, speed, and long-term maintainability.

Job responsibilities

• Define target and transitional architectures and set practical guardrails for resiliency across application, data, and integration layers
• Lead solution design from concept to production, creating ADRs, HLDs, and LLDs that align to enterprise reference architectures and controls
• Run or contribute to design councils, perform architecture/design reviews, and manage exceptions and technical risk with clear remediation plans
• Guide implementation details (service boundaries, API contracts, data models, error handling, idempotency, failure modes, back-pressure)
• Ensure designs include HA/DR, observability (logs/metrics/traces), and capacity/performance considerations, and are ready for chaos and DR testing
• Embed resiliency NFRs (RTO/RPO, SLO/SLI, MTTR) into designs and influence testing strategies (failure injection, DR tests, automated runbooks)
• Identify and drive automation opportunities (anomaly detection, incident triage, playbook automation, self-healing) and define AI/ML integration patterns within security, privacy, and model risk guardrails

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience

• Back-end experience with Java/Spring, REST, Python, messaging, caching
• Front-end experience with React, micro-frontends (MFEs), and performance/error boundary patterns
• Experience with data platforms: relational databases (e.g., Oracle, Cockroach), graph databases (e.g., Neo4J, TigerGraph), and data lake implementations
• Proven ability to produce HLDs/LLDs and enforce architecture through reviews, patterns, and standards
• Hands-on knowledge of resiliency patterns (circuit breakers, bulkheads, retries with jitter, timeouts, idempotency, saga/compensation, blue-green/canary, multi-AZ/region, active-active/active-passive DR)
• Strong observability and reliability practices (metrics/SLIs/SLOs, tracing, log correlation, error budgets, chaos testing, incident postmortems)
• Working knowledge of CI/CD, infrastructure as code, containerization/orchestration, and secure SDLC practices
• Experience using AI/ML tooling to improve productivity, including GenAI/agentic capabilities in architecture work

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience using AI/ML for operations automation such as anomaly/outlier detection, predictive capacity, root-cause hints, and agentic runbook execution
• Familiarity with Python or Scala for data/ML use cases, including model operationalization and responsible-AI guardrails
• Strong communication skills and the ability to influence cross-functional engineering, product, and operations partners
• Knowledge of cloud data platforms and hybrid architectures, including data governance and lineage
• Experience building for financial services, regulated environments, or other mission-critical systems
• Certifications such as TOGAF, cloud certifications, or SRE certifications