Principal Architect - Market Expansion

Job Description
Step into the role of a Principal Architect at JPMorganChase and become a driving force behind the development and adoption of cutting-edge, cloud-based technologies.
As a Principal Architect at JPMorganChase within the Market Expansion team of Commercial and Investment Banking, your passion for technology and thirst for innovation will help shape the future of global digital commerce, now and for years to come. As part of our JPM Payments Architecture Group, you will immerse yourself in solving complex business problems through innovation and proven and repeatable engineering practice. You will partner with Product Teams, Application development teams and other Technology and Operational and teams across the group and the firm, developing an extensive personal network that will allow you to influence and provide technical and architectural leadership and mentoring. You will work on a number of projects which will require differing approaches for success and will depend heavily on collaboration with our colleagues to deliver business results.
The Architecture function is a central team that operates horizontally across the 5,000+ technologists delivering business solutions in the Payments Technology organization. We have responsibility for setting standards, policies and driving the documentation and adoption of pragmatic architectural patterns as we establish consistency and optimized technical outcomes in support of our aggressive business goals.
Job responsibilities

• Leads discussions with business and technology stakeholder to design approaches to meet current and future needs of various business initiatives
• Builds trusted relationships with business and technical decision makers in the customer's organization to provide business and technical thought leadership
• Identifies opportunities to modernize platform capabilities along with business initiatives
• Help defines strategy, roadmap for product go to market and breakdown of technical delivery
• Help defines the target state of their product and drives achievement of the strategy
• 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
• Participates in architecture governance bodies
• Embrace a culture of inclusive decision making with proactive and thoughtful engagement across Technology, Business and Operations

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 7+ years applied experience
• Strong technical background with design and delivery experience with software patterns and principles
• Strong experience in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Significant hands-on experience designing, delivering, optimizing, and modernizing complex distributed systems low-latency systems, from the backend to the UI
• Ability to understand business requirements and complex systems and provide pragmatic and actionable recommendations, solutions, technical delivery roadmaps, etc. with little to no oversight.
• Experience with domain model, understands business process flow, client experience and use cases
• Strategic thinking and passion for business strategy and business processes
• Drives decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Ability to work collaboratively in teams and develop meaningful relationships to achieve common goals
• Adept at working in globally diverse teams across different time zones and forging relationships with key business stakeholders and development teams
• Effective communication and presentation skills both to business and technical audience
• Excellent and proven analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to decompose a large problem into smaller executable pieces
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience in Treasury Services, Cash Management or Global Transaction Banking would be an advantage
• Experience in risk and risk control compliance
• Experience in networking and security concepts and design
• Experience in vendor software package evaluations using assessment frameworks
• Experience in complex software package integrations and data migrations

About Us
JPMorganChase, 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. 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.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans
About the Team
J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.