Senior Lead Architect: Resilient FinTech Platform Design

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

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.