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Senior Lead Architect

AT JPMorgan Chase
JPMorgan Chase

Senior Lead Architect

Jersey City, NJ

If you are excited about shaping the future of technology and driving significant business impact in financial services, we are looking for people just like you. Join our team and help us develop game-changing, high-quality solutions.

The Cloud Foundational Services (CFS) Product Line, a part of Infrastructure Platforms, acts as the focal point across all of JPMC's cloud capabilities. It provides the central suite of tools and APIs that manage access to public cloud capabilities in a secure and compliant manner, defines the developer experience to bind cloud resources into a coherent ecosystem and, in partnership with both Enterprise Technology Product Lines and Lines of Business, drives the adoption and best practices for the implementation of cloud capabilities.

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As a Senior Lead Architect at JPMorgan Chase within the Cloud Foundational Services, you are an integral part of a team that works to develop high-quality architecture solutions for the Atlas enterprise cloud platform. You drive significant business impact and help shape the target state architecture through your capabilities in multiple architecture domains.

Job responsibilities

  • Guide architectural decisions for the Atlas 1.0 and 2.0 platform and advise tenant applications, particularly for AWS
  • Work across partner teams and lines of business to make Atlas 2.0 the best possible cloud platform for JP Morgan.
  • Evaluate and assess new AWS cloud technologies in the light of Atlas initiatives to ensure effective integration and adoption by business lines of business.
  • Provides feedback and proposes improvements to architecture governance practices
  • Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
  • Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
  • Drives decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
  • Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in Atlas and AWS
  • Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
  • Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
  • Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Formal training or certification on Architecture concepts and 5+ years applied experience
  • Awareness of architecture governance and tooling valuable
  • 3+ years of commercial cloud native software experience, ideally on AWS.
  • At least AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.
  • Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
  • Strong coding skills in Python, Java or Golang.
  • Advanced knowledge of software architecture, applications, and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge of cloud native principles
  • 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
  • Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
  • Comfortable working across functional teams from different lines of business from engineers, architects to product managers and potentially remote.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • AWS Solution Architect or Developer certifications or higher professional certification valuable
  • Ideally familiarity and experience with C4 and UML modelling tools
  • Good experience with Kubernetes, using CLI, developing and deploying applications and leveraging service mesh technologies.
  • Comfortable with common identity and access based standards including SAML and OIDC and approaches including ABAC.

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ABOUT US

JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set, and location. For those in eligible roles, we offer discretionary incentive compensation which may be awarded in recognition of firm performance and individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

JPMorgan Chase is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans

ABOUT THE TEAM

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.

Client-provided location(s): Jersey City, NJ, USA; McLean, VA, USA
Job ID: JPMorgan-210558651
Employment Type: Full Time