VP of Architecture Governance & Strategy

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in the United States seeks a Senior Architecture Operations & Governance Lead to own the governance framework for Merchant Services Acquiring. You will drive intake, review boards, ADRs, and standards, while reducing overhead and enabling product and engineering teams to move confidently.

You will influence multiple stakeholders without formal authority, establish metrics, and leverage AI tools within governance workflows with proper data handling.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on architecture concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Experience in architecture governance and operations in a complex technology organization — including running review forums, decision tracking, standards and guardrails management, and exception handling.
• Strong understanding of architecture artifacts and workflows — including target state architecture, NFRs, integration patterns, and Architecture Decision Records.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end architecture governance process for Merchant Services Acquiring — including intake, triage, required artifact definition, routing to the right architects and forums, and tracking all items through to closure.
• Plan and run architecture review boards and forums, managing agendas, pre-reads, facilitation, minutes and decisions, actions, and follow-ups to ensure reviews are predictable, prepared, and produce high-quality outcomes.
• Maintain a clean, auditable decision record — including ADRs, key architectural decisions, standards alignment, and outcomes — so that decisions are easy to discover, reused across teams, and traceable to clear owners and rationale.
• Maintain and continuously improve architecture standards and guardrails, including templates, reference architectures, patterns, and NFR checklists, to drive consistency and quality across teams.
• Run exception and waiver workflows — ensuring rationale, approvals, expiry and renewal, and remediation plans are tracked and visible — and identify recurring gaps to drive systemic improvements across NFRs, integration patterns, and security considerations.
• Review architecture submissions for completeness and quality — including NFRs, dependencies, resiliency, and security and data considerations — and coordinate remediation with solution teams.
• Partner with domain architects to improve architecture content quality and promote reuse of patterns and decisions across product and engineering teams.
• Provide clear, lightweight status and metrics on governance throughput — including volume, cycle time, aging, and exception themes — ensuring leadership and stakeholders can easily find what was decided, why, and by whom.
• Influence across product and engineering without formal authority to drive timely decisions, reduce coordination overhead on architects, and improve overall governance consistency and transparency.
• Leverage enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate architecture analysis and governance workflows, with human-in-the-loop validation and appropriate handling of sensitive data.

Skills

Architecture governance

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Cross-team collaboration

Problem solving

Education

Architecture certification

Tools

Jira

Confluence

AI tools

Job description

JPMorganChase in the United States seeks a Senior Architecture Operations & Governance Lead to own the governance framework for Merchant Services Acquiring. You will drive intake, review boards, ADRs, and standards, while reducing overhead and enabling product and engineering teams to move confidently.

You will influence multiple stakeholders without formal authority, establish metrics, and leverage AI tools within governance workflows with proper data handling.