Job Description

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 JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer & Community Banking Payments 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

Represents a product family of technical governance bodies Provides feedback and proposes improvements to architecture governance practices Guides evaluation of current technology and leads evaluation of new technologies using existing standards and frameworks Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others Drives decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability Advanced in one or more programming language(s), applications, and architecture Advanced knowledge of software architecture, applications, and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.) Proficiency in leading the end to end design of architecture or Small & Mid-sized Business (SMB) payment systems using Spring boot/Java microservices, event driven architecture and domain driven design concepts. Track record of migrating legacy payment platforms to cloud native environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP) with the intent to enhance performance, security, resilience and reduce cost. Demonstrated ability to partner with product managers, developers, and business stakeholders to align architectural decisions with business objectives and customer needs. Proven ability in implementing solutions that handle high transaction volumes, low latency, and seamless integration with third party payment providers.

Well versed with RESTful API standards and messaging standards along with the ability to perform the architecture-to-code review working with the technology teams
Experience designing payments systems adhering to security standards such as PCI DSS and ensure compliance with regulatory requirement. Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight Practical cloud native experience * Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to select or recommend the best solutions for the future state architecture