As a Senior Lead Architect at JPMorganChase within the Corporate Sector, Employee Platforms, you are an integral part of a team that works to develop high-quality architecture solutions for various software applications and platform products. You drive significant business impact and help shape the target state architecture through your capabilities in multiple architecture domains.
You will help shape, prototype, and scale agentic AI solutions across a global enterprise serving more than 300,000 employees. This individual contributor role sits within the central Engineering and Architecture function of a 3000+ person technology organization, partnering horizontally across Employee Platforms to design intelligent, secure, and practical AI-enabled capabilities. You will work across domain architects, engineers, product teams, security, control functions, and platform owners to architect and build custom agentic systems, implement AI solutions in public cloud environments, and create reusable patterns that help teams provide employees innovative AI solutions that allow them to deliver at their highest potential. The role balances future-facing agentic architecture with hands-on delivery, helping Employee Platforms evaluate trade-offs, apply appropriate controls, and deliver measurable value through both custom and vendor AI capabilities.
Job responsibilities
- Represents a product family in technical governance bodies and proposes improvements to architecture governance practices
- Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
- Leverages enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate architecture analysis and decisioning across the product family, with human-in-the-loop validation and appropriate handling of sensitive data
- Guides evaluation of current and new technologies using existing standards and frameworks, influencing peers and decision-makers to adopt leading-edge solutions where appropriate
- Drives decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
- Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert and contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide SDLC frameworks and practices
- Establishes reuse-first AI-enabled engineering patterns and governance across SDLC/toolchain practices, ensuring traceability/auditability, resiliency, and security controls
- Architect and build custom agentic systems that support Employee Platforms use cases across employee experience, workflow automation, knowledge discovery, service operations
- Design prototypes, reference implementations, reusable patterns, and evaluation harnesses that help engineering teams move agentic AI capabilities safely from concept to production
- Implement AI and agentic solution patterns in public cloud environments, with practical attention to APIs, data access, deployment automation, observability, resilience, and operational support
- Formal training or certification on architecture concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced in one or more programming language(s) and deep expertise in software architecture, applications, and technical processes within one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
- Demonstrated experience applying enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment in architecture and engineering workflows with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity
- Ability to evaluate and integrate AI-enabled capabilities into enterprise-grade architectures while meeting resiliency, security, and auditability requirements
- 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
- Strong judgment and communication skills to influence technical direction across teams
- Agentic AI architecture: Hands-on experience architecting and building custom agentic systems, including tool use, orchestration, memory patterns, planning, autonomy boundaries, human-in-the-loop controls, and evaluation approaches
- Public cloud implementation: Practical experience implementing AI, data, integration, or agentic solutions in public cloud environments
- AI / ML foundations: Strong understanding of LLMs, RAG, embeddings, model selection, prompt design, multi-model orchestration, and responsible use of generative AI capabilities
- Experience with vendor AI platforms and enterprise SaaS ecosystems, such as Microsoft Copilot, ServiceNow, Salesforce, Oracle HCM, OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, or similar platforms
- Experience operating in a regulated enterprise environment, including financial services, healthcare, government, or other control-oriented industries
- Familiarity with security, SaaS integration, AI governance, responsible AI practices, model risk concepts, and control frameworks for autonomous or semi-autonomous systems
- Experience contributing to reusable architecture patterns, engineering standards, architecture communities, or internal enablement materials
- Exposure to emerging agentic AI protocols, frameworks, and integration patterns, including MCP, A2A, LangGraph, CrewAI, or similar technologies
- Mentor engineers and architects, contribute to architecture communities, and communicate complex AI architecture concepts in a clear, practical, and inspiring way
- Communication and influence: Ability to explain complex technical tradeoffs clearly to engineering, product, architecture, security, and leadership stakeholders, with strong written architecture documentation skills
About Us
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
Skills Required
- Formal training or certification in architecture concepts
- 5+ years of applied architecture experience
- Hands-on experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced proficiency in one or more programming languages
- Deep expertise in software architecture, applications, and technical processes
- Experience applying enterprise-authorized AI capabilities in architecture and engineering workflows
- Ability to integrate AI capabilities into enterprise architectures while meeting resiliency, security, and auditability requirements
- Ability to independently solve design and functionality problems
- Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies and recommend future-state architecture solutions
- Strong judgment and communication skills for influencing technical direction
- Hands-on experience architecting and building custom agentic systems, including tool use, orchestration, memory, planning, autonomy boundaries, human-in-the-loop controls, and evaluation
- Practical experience implementing AI, data, integration, or agentic solutions in public cloud environments
- Strong understanding of LLMs, RAG, embeddings, model selection, prompt design, multi-model orchestration, and responsible generative AI
- Experience with vendor AI platforms and enterprise SaaS ecosystems such as Microsoft Copilot, ServiceNow, Salesforce, Oracle HCM, OpenAI, or Anthropic Claude
- Experience in a regulated enterprise environment
- Familiarity with security, SaaS integration, AI governance, responsible AI, model risk, and control frameworks
- Experience contributing to reusable architecture patterns, engineering standards, architecture communities, or enablement materials
- Exposure to MCP, A2A, LangGraph, CrewAI, or similar agentic AI technologies
- Experience mentoring engineers and architects
- Strong written architecture documentation and technical communication skills
JPMorganChase Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about JPMorganChase and has not been reviewed or approved by JPMorganChase.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, vision, and mental-health coverage are broad, with wellness incentives, on-site or virtual care, and an EAP offering coaching and counseling. Plan materials emphasize accessible options, including multiple medical choices and tools to manage costs.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave extends up to 16 weeks for all parents, supplemented by paid Critical Caregiver Leave. Family resources include backup childcare via Bright Horizons, lactation support and milk-shipping, family-building assistance, and even a free five-month SNOO rental for newborns.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a 401(k) with an annual company match and automatic pay credits for most employees, with a legacy pension available to earlier hires. An Employee Stock Purchase Plan at a 5% discount further supports long-term savings.
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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. ©2023 JPMorgan Chase & Co. All rights reserved. JPMorgan Chase is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans.
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