Senior Lead Architect

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 Global Technology Enterprise Architecture team, 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.

Job responsibilities



* Evaluate 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


* Conduct 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
Identify duplication, redundancy, and rationalization opportunities across the technology landscape; quantify impact and escalate recommendations to leadership to drive consolidation and simplification


* Participate 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


* Facilitate and contribute to design reviews and architecture forums with cross-functional teams to promote architectural excellence and knowledge sharing


* Coordinate or contribute to threat modeling activities for higher-risk applications and platforms, integrating findings into remediation plans


* Drive the development and use of AI copilots and agentic workflows to scale architecture review processes, automate evidence collection, and improve documentation quality and consistency.


* Mentor and train architects and engineers on architecture best practices, design patterns, secure-by-design principles, operational excellence, and effective documentation.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills



* Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.

In addition, demonstrated coaching and mentoring experience


* 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.


* 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


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