Senior Lead Software Architect — FinTech Platform

Worky; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase in New York is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to design and deliver high-quality architecture solutions across applications and platform products. You will lead cross-functional teams and translate business needs into scalable designs that are secure, resilient, and aligned with enterprise standards.

This role requires hands-on cloud experience, strong collaboration with product and engineering partners, and a track record of guiding architecture decisions, governance,

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Experience designing and delivering microservices and APIs with event-driven architectures.
• Hands-on cloud-native engineering across multi-cloud and hybrid environments, with strong AWS expertise.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to product and engineering teams to deliver outcomes aligned to business priorities.
• Own end-to-end architecture for key initiatives, including target-state designs and data flows.
• Drive architectural decisions across security, resiliency, performance, cost, and time-to-market.
• Translate product capabilities into scalable system designs, APIs, and data models with clear non-functional requirements.
• Establish and govern reference architectures, design patterns, and reusable components.
• Partner with product management to shape the roadmap and prioritize architectural investments.
• Guide solution design and implementation across teams, conducting design and code reviews as needed.
• Drive adoption and governance of AI-assisted engineering practices to improve quality and delivery speed.
• Apply SDLC/toolchain knowledge to increase value realized from automation at scale.
• Serve as a function-wide SME and advocate firmwide frameworks and SDLC practices.

Skills

Java

Python

React

Kafka

AWS

APIs

Microservices

Architecture governance

CI/CD

Education

Software engineering degree or certification

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

JPMorgan Chase in New York is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to design and deliver high-quality architecture solutions across applications and platform products. You will lead cross-functional teams and translate business needs into scalable designs that are secure, resilient, and aligned with enterprise standards.

This role requires hands-on cloud experience, strong collaboration with product and engineering partners, and a track record of guiding architecture decisions, governance,