Senior Lead Architect – Payments & Digital Transformation

Testing Site - JPMC

Plano (TX)

On-site

USD 150,000 - 230,000

Full time

14 days+

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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.