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As a Lead Architect at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer & Community Banking Team, you are an integral part of a team that works to develop high-quality architecture solutions for various software applications on modern cloud-based technologies. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical architecture solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of project goals.
Job responsibilities
- 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
- 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
- Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- 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 Technical Architecture concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
- Hands-on experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
- Advanced proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., Java, Python).
- Experience in architecting and building highly scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems and micro services on cloud/distributed environments (preferably AWS).
- Experience in designing and building batch and streaming data pipelines.
- Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods, including automated end-to-end and performance testing.
- Advanced understanding of agile methodologies (CI/CD, application resiliency, security).
- Practical cloud-native experience.
- Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to recommend optimal solutions.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Experience of the financial services industry and IT systems (preferred).
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience with modeling languages (UML, C4) and enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF).
- AWS Certification.
- Prior Fin-tech industry experience
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What We Do
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $3.7 trillion and operations worldwide. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small businesses, commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase & Co. serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan and Chase brands.
Technology fuels every aspect of our company and is at the heart of everything we do. With over 50,000 technologists globally and an annual tech spend of $12 billion, we are dedicated to improving the design, analytics, development, coding, testing and application programming that goes into creating high quality software and new products.
Learn more about technology at our firm, explore resources from our Distinguished Engineers, AI & ML researchers, and other experts; access the latest episode of our TechTrends podcast, and more at www.jpmorgan.com/technology. Information about JPMorgan Chase & Co. is available at www.jpmorganchase.com.
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