Senior Lead Architect: Information Architecture

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 the Enterprise Risk Technology team of Corporate Sector you are an integral part of a team that works to develop high-quality architecture solutions for various software applications and platforms products. You drive significant business impact and help shape the target state architecture through your capabilities in multiple architecture domains. Provide expert knowledge of application architecture and consult to Business and Technology teams when detailed application architecture knowledge is needed, and identify/mitigate risks to delivering solution on time.

You will partner with architects and cross-functional stakeholders across multiple LOBs and Corporate Functions to translate guidance from Data Strategy, Data Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance into actionable solutions for Risk Technology and Product teams.

Job responsibilities

• Represents a product family in technical governance bodies and proposes improvements to architecture governance practices
• Contribute to architecture designs and reviews, representing data governance and data management concerns.
• Oversee the CCB Risk Tech data governance practices and tooling.
• Interpret and drive firm-wide Data Product initiative within CCB Risk.
• Collaborate with Product and Tech teams to curate and advance CCB Risk Data Strategy.
• Engage to identify and support the sharing and adoption of common data-related capabilities (metadata generation, interoperability, data quality and observability, etc).
• Represent a product family in technical governance bodies and propose improvements to architecture governance practices.
• Provide technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors.
• Leverages 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.
• Drive decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes.
• Establishes reuse-first AI-enabled engineering patterns and governance across SDLC/toolchain practices, ensuring traceability/auditability, resiliency, and security controls.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on architecture concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Minimum 10 years of relevant work experience or played a major role in technology implementation projects.
• Strong understanding of information architecture (data lineage), data management/data governance principles (data quality), and working knowledge of data catalog.
• Strong communication skills and ability to partner and collaborate with different personas across multiple forums.
• Ability to learn new tools, adopt new trends, and deliver strategic and tactical solutions efficiently using AI.
• Basic knowledge and experience with data modeling and meta-modeling.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s) and deep expertise in software architecture, applications, and technical processes within one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.).
• Demonstrated experience applying enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment in architecture and engineering workflows with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Knowledge of basic information architecture capabilities like Metadata Management, Data Integration, and Data Migration.
• Knowledge of Databricks Lakehouse ecosystem and AWS Cloud platform/services.
• Ability to write advanced SQL and analyze data as needed. Hands-on research using SQL and AI.
• Basic knowledge of Erwin and/or MagicDraw data modeling tool to view and navigate data models if needed.
• 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.

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 over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

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