Senior Lead Architect Cloud & Infrastructure Resiliency

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 within Corporate Technologys Enterprise Architecture team you are an integral part of a team that develops high-quality architecture solutions for software applications and platform products. You drive significant business impact by advancing the adoption of complex strategic global solutions influencing target state architecture and building consensus across teams. Your expertise helps shape the firms technology strategy and ensures scalable durable solutions are available firmwide.

Job responsibilities:

• Advise and influence executives stakeholders and portfolio owners leading architecture review boards to develop and maintain IT infrastructure tools across the enterprise including selection integration and retirement.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on IT Cloud & Infrastructure delivering technology capabilities and managing sprawl in areas such as Application Infrastructure Hosting Networking Application Integration and Hyperconverged Infrastructure.
• Translate highly complex technical issues trends and approaches to leadership to drive innovation and enable strategic well-informed decisions about target state architecture.
• Drive adoption and implementation of technical methods in specialized fields in line with the latest product development methodologies.
• Establish and lead an architecture governance body ensuring compliance and governance with architecture decision records and policies.
• Create durable reusable software frameworks that improve velocity and quality of output across teams and functions.
• Evaluate current and emerging technologies to recommend the best technology solutions and approaches to achieve the future state architecture.
• Lead proof-of-concept initiatives for emerging technologies and vendors advise on budgeting and financial impact and identify cost savings opportunities.

Required qualifications capabilities and skills:

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5 years applied experience
• Extensive knowledge of cloud and infrastructure domains: compute storage networking cloud virtualization security resiliency and automation
• Demonstrated ability and knowledge of business continuity and disaster recovery concepts and practices including their measurement through service-level agreements objectives and indicators
• Demonstrated ability and extensive knowledge of observability practices (e.g. Open Telemetry distributed tracing) and defining/measuring resiliency factors such as availability and recovery
• Proven experience communicating and driving change across architecture disciplines (business information tech data application)
• Practical experience delivering shared platform design development testing and operational stability to large scale consumer populations
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to recommend the best approaches to fulfill business goals and achieve the target state architecture
• Demonstrated ability to embed regulatory risk and control requirements into infrastructure architecture and provide audit-ready evidence change traceability and compliance reporting
• Extensive understanding of cell architecture and how to construct boundaries through existing capabilities like VPC Service Controls in GCP or SCPs and network controls in AWS
• Extensive understanding of the niche and overlapping capabilities within the different cloud providers like GCP Cloud Run vs AWS Lambda or Spanner vs RDS and how they can be architected appropriately for resiliency and security
• Extensive understanding of network and infrastructure capabilities that exist within the different cloud providers or exist in data center environments inclusive of how they may be used to govern complex transit in regulated spaces support compliance frameworks like HIPAA & PCI which includes architecture patterns and designs for low latency applications across multiple distributed application portfolios deployed using a variety of highly-distributed yet secure and resilient manner

Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills:

• 5 years applied experience in software-defined infrastructure
• 2 years applied experience in software engineering
• Relevant Architecture certifications (e.g. TOGAF AWS/Azure/GCP Architect ITIL CISSP PMP)
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code provisioning automation and policy enforcement frameworks (e.g. Terraform CloudFormation Ansible Puppet Open Policy Agent/OPA/Rego)