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As a Senior Lead Architect at JPMorganChase within the Infrastructure Platforms International Services organization, 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.
Job responsibilities
- Represent a product family in technical governance bodies and propose improvements to architecture governance practices
- Provide regular technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
- Leverage 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
- Guide evaluation of current and new technologies using existing standards and frameworks, influencing peers and decision-makers to adopt leading-edge solutions where appropriate
- Drive decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
- Develop secure and high-quality production code, and review and debug code written by others
- Serve as a function-wide subject matter expert and contribute to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide software development lifecycle frameworks and practices
- Promote reuse-first, AI-assisted practices for program governance and reporting, ensuring human review and alignment to delivery standards
- Use enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate program planning and risk synthesis — such as consolidating inputs into integrated plans, risk and issue logs, and executive-ready updates — validating outputs and handling data according to sensitivity requirements
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- 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 proficiency in one or more programming languages and deep expertise in software architecture, applications, and technical processes within one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile)
- Demonstrated experience using enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to support program management workflows, with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity
- Ability to review and validate AI-assisted plans, risks, and recommendations before use, escalating when uncertain and following data handling expectations
- 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
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- General knowledge of technology regulations, high-level business and technical characteristics in the Europe, Middle East and Africa and Latin America and Canada regions, or experience working with internal technology clients and partners in these locations (e.g., Switzerland, Luxembourg, Türkiye, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Argentina)
- Familiarity with cross-regional compliance and data residency considerations that impact architecture decisions in international environments
- Experience engaging with globally distributed teams and navigating multi-jurisdictional technology delivery
- Knowledge of emerging architecture patterns and their applicability to large-scale, internationally distributed infrastructure platforms
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 within one or more technical disciplines
- Experience using enterprise-authorized AI capabilities to support program management workflows
- Ability to validate AI-assisted plans, risks, and recommendations and follow data-handling expectations
- Ability to solve design and functionality problems independently with minimal oversight
- Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies and recommend future-state architecture solutions
- Strong judgment and communication skills to influence technical direction across teams
- Knowledge of technology regulations and business and technical characteristics across international regions
- Familiarity with cross-regional compliance and data residency considerations
- Experience working with globally distributed teams and navigating multi-jurisdictional technology delivery
- Knowledge of emerging architecture patterns for large-scale internationally distributed infrastructure platforms
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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