Director of Architecture

Job Description
Join a visionary team at JPMorgan Chase Auto Architecture, where you'll lead the strategic direction, design systems, and user experience architecture for our digital platforms.
As a Director of Architecture at JPMorgan Chase within Chase Auto, you will lead the strategic direction and design of Loan Originations system and user experience architecture for our digital platforms. You will guide a high-performing architecture team, collaborating closely with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to build consensus and translate product visions into scalable, resilient, and cost-effective technical solutions. Your role will involve defining and driving the technical target state and strategy, ensuring adherence to security and compliance standards, participating in architecture governance, and evaluating new technologies to enhance product quality and operational stability. Additionally, you will provide technical leadership throughout the project lifecycle, offer guidance to development teams, and foster innovation through creative problem-solving, automation, and vendor evaluations to continuously improve our systems and processes.
Job responsibilities

• Lead the high performing architecture team. Engage with Product and Engineering leaders to bring consensus on the designed architecture.
• Engages technical teams and business stakeholders to discuss and propose technical approaches to meet current and future needs. Defines the technical target state of their product and drives achievement of the strategy
• Convert product ideas and visions into tangible architecture. Architect scalable, resilient, cost-effective solutions based on modern technologies and frameworks.
• Collaborate with product managers, developers, and UX/UI designers to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Ensure all applications adhere to industry-standard security best practices and compliance requirements.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams throughout the project lifecycle.
• Evaluate and recommend new technologies and tools to enhance the development process and product quality.
• Participates in architecture governance bodies. Evaluates recommendations and provides feedback on new technologies
• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience. In addition, 5+ years of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering architecture, system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Experience in domain driven design, data modeling, micro services architecture, event & streaming technologies and best practices.
• Advanced experience in API design and management, Service definition and consumption including API, brokers, REST APIs
• Proven experience as a Solution Architect or similar role in digital web and mobile application development.
• In-depth knowledge of industry-standard security best practices for public-facing digital applications.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud and in building cloud-native application
• Defining Non-functional requirements and architectures to satisfy availability, extensibility, and resiliency needs
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools for continuous integration and deployment.
• Ability to work well at a conceptual and practical levels, resolve ambiguity, and to drive concepts out into workable solutions. Ability to define target state architectures, and develop realistic transition plans for achieving target state
• Hands-on experience modeling with UML, object-oriented constructs, or other modeling language. Experience with formal enterprise architecture models and tooling, such as TOGAF

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with AI/ML, LLM and Generative AI is preferred.
• AWS Certification preferred
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

About Us
Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America's households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve all their financial needs.
We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of 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.
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About the Team
Our Consumer & Community Banking division serves our Chase customers through a range of financial services, including personal banking, credit cards, mortgages, auto financing, investment advice, small business loans and payment processing. We're proud to lead the U.S. in credit card sales and deposit growth and have the most-used digital solutions - all while ranking first in customer satisfaction.