Senior Lead Architect: GenAI & Cloud Platform Services

Next Frontier Capital; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase seeks a Senior Lead Architect to shape target state architectures and drive significant business impact across Global Banking platforms. You will govern architecture decisions, guide AI-enabled initiatives, and ensure secure, scalable cloud-native designs for high-volume, microservices environments.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, influence technical direction, and leverage GenAI capabilities to enhance decision-making and automation across the product family.

Qualifications

• 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 language(s) and deep expertise in software architecture, applications, and technical processes within one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• 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.
• Demonstrated ability to architect and build high-volume, microservices, domain-driven, event driven and cloud-native systems.
• Hands-on experience with one of the public clouds: AWS, Azure or GCP

Responsibilities

• Represents a product family in technical governance bodies and proposes improvements to architecture governance practices.
• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors.
• Leverages 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.
• Guides evaluation of current and new technologies using existing standards and frameworks, influencing peers and decision-makers to adopt leading-edge solutions where appropriate.
• Drives decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes.
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert and contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide SDLC frameworks and practices
• Establishes reuse-first AI-enabled engineering patterns and governance across SDLC/toolchain practices, ensuring traceability/auditability, resiliency, and security controls
• Defines current, proximal, and target state architecture for strategic applications, optimizing business value from both Line of Business and Global Technologies products
• Leads initiatives to integrate GenAI technologies into existing systems to enhance decision-making, automation, and customer experience
• Builds new innovative solutions using modern technology and cloud native design principles that solve business problems and drive business growth

Skills

Architecture training

System design

Programming skills

AI/ML integration

Cloud experience

Communication skills

Bachelor degree

Microservices

Public cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Education

Bachelor's degree or related experience

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

JPMorganChase seeks a Senior Lead Architect to shape target state architectures and drive significant business impact across Global Banking platforms. You will govern architecture decisions, guide AI-enabled initiatives, and ensure secure, scalable cloud-native designs for high-volume, microservices environments.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, influence technical direction, and leverage GenAI capabilities to enhance decision-making and automation across the product family.