Senior Lead Architect, Enterprise Architecture
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Job Location:
Columbus, NE - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
If you are excited about shaping the future of technology and driving significant business impact in financial services we are looking for people just like you. Join our team and help us develop game-changing high quality solutions.
As a Senior Lead Architect at JPMorgan Chase within Global Technologys GTEA team you are an integral part of a team that works to develop high-quality architecture solutions for various software applications and platform products. You will partner closely with engineering and product teams to review and improve architectures for applications platforms and critical infrastructure; evaluate control procedures and alignment to target-state and firmwide standards; and lead rationalization and optimization initiatives.
Job Responsibilities
- Evaluates large platforms and critical infrastructure by identifying architecture gaps assessing controls and ensuring alignment with target-state architecture and firmwide standards; translate findings into actionable roadmaps with engineering teams.
- Conducts architecture risk assessments across portfolios leveraging hands-on knowledge of build test release and run to pinpoint vulnerabilities technical debt operability gaps resiliency weaknesses and areas requiring remediation or investment.
- Identifies duplication redundancy and rationalization opportunities across the technology landscape; quantify impact and escalate recommendations to leadership to drive consolidation and simplification.
- Champions and maintains documentation standards ensuring current high-quality High-Level Design (HLD) documents C4 context/containers/components diagrams Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and related artifacts are consistently produced and governed.
Mentors and trains architects and engineers on architecture best practices design patterns secure-by-design principles operational excellence and effective documentation.
- Communicates clearly complex technical concepts trade-offs and risk posture to diverse audiencesincluding senior leadershipto drive informed decisions and consensus.
- Collaborates with enterprise architecture security risk and compliance partners to ensure solutions adhere to firmwide policies and control frameworks; incorporate threat modeling and secure design patterns.
- Participates in the evaluation of emerging technologies and architectural patterns (including AI/ML platforms cloud-native services and data architectures) to recommend adoption integration or avoidance based on fit scalability resilience and risk.
- Facilitates and contributes to design reviews and architecture forums with cross-functional teams to promote architectural excellence and knowledge sharing.
- Coordinates or contributes to threat modeling activities for higher-risk applications and platforms integrating findings into remediation plans.
- Drives the development and use of AI copilots and agentic workflows to scale architecture review processes automate evidence collection and improve documentation quality and consistency.
Required Qualifications Capabilities and Skills
- Formal training or certification in software engineering and architecture concepts or 5 years of applied experience combining architecture and hands-on development.
- End-to-end SDLC expertise with proven delivery of system design application development automated testing CI/CD observability and production operations/support for complex platforms and applications.
- Deep understanding of large-scale distributed platforms including microservices event-driven and data streaming systems data pipelines APIs and cloud-native architectures across public and private cloud.
- Proficiency in architecture documentation practices: HLDs C4 diagrams ADRs sequence diagrams and reference architectures; ability to keep artifacts current and actionable.
- Demonstrated ability to assess architecture and operational risks identify gaps (resiliency reliability security cost) and develop remediation strategies aligned to business priorities and delivery timelines.
- Experience evaluating and designing security architectures and control procedures; working knowledge of threat modeling identity and access patterns data protection and compliance frameworks in complex environments.
- Strong engineering fundamentals and fluency with modern stacks and practices (e.g. Java/.NET/Node/Python containers/Kubernetes IaC messaging RDBMS/NoSQL caching API gateways service mesh).
- Hands-on experience with observability and SRE practices (SLIs/SLOs error budgets logging metrics tracing incident management capacity planning) to inform architecture decisions.
- Analytical skills to identify duplication and rationalization opportunities; experience with portfolio assessments capability mapping and target-state roadmaps.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to tailor complex concepts to both technical
Preferred Qualifications Capabilities and Skills
- Hands-on experience building integrating or operating AI copilots/assistants for developer or architecture workflows (e.g. agentic systems that orchestrate tools to perform architecture evidence gathering code and config analysis control validation documentation generation or review automation).
- Familiarity with LLMs and retrieval-augmented systems prompt engineering tooling orchestration and guardrails for secure enterprise use; ability to define evaluation criteria and success metrics for AI-assisted review processes.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
About Company
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 ov ... View more
