Director of Architecture

Job Description
We are looking for a leader to take us to the next level as a Director of Architecture at JPMorgan Chase. Take the reins of a specific area of architecture and make a meaningful impact at one of the world's most influential companies.
As a Director of Architecture at JPMorgan Chase within the Chief Data Analytics Office, Data Platforms team, you lead a specific area of architecture and drive impact within teams, technologies, and projects across departments. Utilize your in-depth knowledge of architecture applications, processes, and product management to drive multiple complex projects and initiatives while serving as a primary decision maker for your teams and a driver of innovation to achieve the target state architecture goals.
You will support our engineering teams through technical architecture deep-dives focusing on application development practices, technology controls and will ensure strong performance based on growth forecasts for the platform. You will partner with teams to review development best practices, ensuring good quality code, comprehensive testing and a robust technology controls implementation.
Job responsibilities

• You will lead technical architecture and drive best-in-class technical discipline across the organization.
• Conduct architecture deep dives and reviews to ensure alignment with strategic goals and identify opportunities for innovation and improvement.
• Ensure adherence to high standards of application development hygiene, including code quality, comprehensive documentation, and rigorous testing practices.
• Establish and maintain a culture of robust technology controls to safeguard data integrity, security, and compliance with industry standards and regulations.
• Drive initiatives to enhance system scalability and performance, ensuring applications can handle increased loads efficiently. Work across teams to assess and optimize infrastructure to support platform growth.
• Implement and promote best practices in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) to enhance efficiency, quality, and collaboration across development teams.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on complex distributed systems concepts and expert applied experience.
• Significant of experience building complex distributed systems.
• A mindset geared towards a fantastic end-to-end engineering experience and strong technical discipline supported by excellent tooling and automation.
• Experience building out real-world architectures that engineering teams buy into and build their application around.
• Excellent understanding of technology controls and how they should be implemented effectively to secure our platforms.
• Strong understanding on how to design platforms to scale to meet growth requirements from business stakeholders.
• Able to influence engineers at different levels of seniority to ensure a standard approach to best-in-class engineering across the organization.
• Deep knowledge of AWS product/services and Kubernetes/container technologies and how they are best used for specific workloads.

About Us
J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
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.
About the Team
Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.