Senior Lead Architect-Enterprise Architecture
Jersey, NJ - USA
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 JPMorganChase in Corporate Technology youll shape how our platforms are designed and builtfrom early concepts through production. Youll set clear architecture direction help teams deliver resilient systems and turn complex technical tradeoffs into practical plans that improve reliability speed and long-term maintainability.
Job responsibilities
- Define target and transitional architectures and set practical guardrails for resiliency across application data and integration layers
- Lead solution design from concept to production creating ADRs HLDs and LLDs that align to enterprise reference architectures and controls
- Run or contribute to design councils perform architecture/design reviews and manage exceptions and technical risk with clear remediation plans
- Guide implementation details (service boundaries API contracts data models error handling idempotency failure modes back-pressure)
- Ensure designs include HA/DR observability (logs/metrics/traces) and capacity/performance considerations and are ready for chaos and DR testing
- Embed resiliency NFRs (RTO/RPO SLO/SLI MTTR) into designs and influence testing strategies (failure injection DR tests automated runbooks)
- Identify and drive automation opportunities (anomaly detection incident triage playbook automation self-healing) and define AI/ML integration patterns within security privacy and model risk guardrails
Required qualifications capabilities and skills
Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5 years applied experience
- Back-end experience with Java/Spring REST Python messaging caching
- Front-end experience with React micro-frontends (MFEs) and performance/error boundary patterns
- Experience with data platforms: relational databases (e.g. Oracle Cockroach) graph databases (e.g. Neo4J TigerGraph) and data lake implementations
- Proven ability to produce HLDs/LLDs and enforce architecture through reviews patterns and standards
- Hands-on knowledge of resiliency patterns (circuit breakers bulkheads retries with jitter timeouts idempotency saga/compensation blue-green/canary multi-AZ/region active-active/active-passive DR)
- Strong observability and reliability practices (metrics/SLIs/SLOs tracing log correlation error budgets chaos testing incident postmortems)
Working knowledge of CI/CD infrastructure as code containerization/orchestration and secure SDLC practices
- Experience using AI/ML tooling to improve productivity including GenAI/agentic capabilities in architecture work
- Experience using AI/ML for operations automation such as anomaly/outlier detection predictive capacity root-cause hints and agentic runbook execution
- Familiarity with Python or Scala for data/ML use cases including model operationalization and responsible-AI guardrails
- Strong communication skills and the ability to influence cross-functional engineering product and operations partners
- Knowledge of cloud data platforms and hybrid architectures including data governance and lineage
- Experience building for financial services regulated environments or other mission-critical systems
- Certifications such as TOGAF cloud certifications or SRE certifications
Required Experience:
Senior IC
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