Lead Architect
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As the Lead Architect at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial Investment and Bank for Market Tech- Sales, Research, and Data portfolio, you will serve as a technical leader and subject matter expert, championing architectural excellence in cloud deployments. You will work closely with leadership, engineering leads, and teams to create target architectures that are resilient, future-ready, and aligned with business goals. This position offers the chance to influence enterprise-wide standards, collaborate with talented teams, and play a crucial role in our modernization journey.
Job responsibilities
- Engages technical teams and business stakeholders to discuss and propose technical approaches to define target state architectures for applications across our AWS and on-premises portfolio, ensuring alignment with broader enterprise architecture and firmwide standards and business strategy.
- Represent the Sales, Research and Data in firmwide technical governance meetings, providing feedback and driving improvements in architecture governance practices and opinionated.
- Guide the evaluation of current technologies and lead the assessment of new solutions using established standards and frameworks.
- Provide technical direction and mentorship to engineering teams, fostering best practices in cloud-native design and development.
- Understand business needs and opportunities to inform architectural decisions and strategic direction.
- Drive decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations, balancing innovation with operational stability.
- Serve as a subject matter expert in enterprise architecture, cloud modernization, and AWS best practices.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software architecture concepts and proficient advanced experience.
- Demonstrable experience designing and delivering cloud-native solutions.
- Advanced knowledge of software architecture, application design, and technical processes, with expertise in at least one architecture pillar (Business, Application, Data, Infrastructure).
- Proven ability to evaluate and recommend current and emerging technologies for future-state architecture.
- Skilled in verbal, written, and diagrammatic communication, with the ability to adapt style for diverse audiences.
Experience guiding teams through modernization programs, including cloud migration and roadmap creation.
- AWS certification (Solutions Architect or higher) strongly preferred
- Demonstrable experience designing and delivering cloud-native solutions, preferably on AWS