Architect

hackajob is collaborating with J.P. Morgan to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. 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 - Enterprise Architecture at JP Morgan Chase, you will help set and advance the firm's technology strategy and target state across several domains. You will work across teams to shape direction, drive adoption of standards, and enable scalable, secure, and AI-enabled solutions firmwide. You will help define and evolve architecture capabilities, build alignment among business and technology teams, and ensure target state solutions support priorities and deliver enterprise-wide impact. Job Responsibilities Advise executives on architecture strategy and direction, framing trade-offs across cost, complexity, risk, and business value. Support executive decisioning by framing options and enabling firmwide prioritization aligned to business outcomes. Lead and contribute to architecture governance forums to guide decisions and ensure consistency at enterprise scale. Define enterprise architecture strategies, reference architectures, target states, and roadmaps aligned to firmwide priorities. Leverages enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate architecture analysis and decisioning with validation and appropriate handling of sensitive data. Guides evaluation of current and new technologies using existing standards and frameworks, influencing peers and decision-makers to adopt leading-edge solutions where appropriate Drives decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes. Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert and contributes to the architecture community as an advocate of firmwide. Establishes reuse-first AI-enabled architecture patterns and governance across practices, ensuring traceability/auditability, resiliency, and security controls. Establish adoptable standards, patterns, and paved paths, using metrics to drive adoption and reuse. Drive alignment across architecture disciplines and partner with engineering, product organizations while identifying opportunities for simplification, modernization, and optimization. Evaluate emerging technologies implementation - platform choices, preferred uses, adoption paths - that stand up to scrutiny. Advise executives on architecture strategy and direction, framing trade-offs across cost, complexity, risk, and business value while mentoring architects for an outcome-focused architecture community. Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills Formal training or certification on architecture concepts and 5 plus years of applied experience in technology architecture, strategy, and engineering. Experience defining and driving architecture strategies across several domains in large, complex organizations. Advanced in one or more programming language(s) and deep expertise in enterprise 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. Ability to evaluate and integrate AI-enabled capabilities into enterprise-grade architectures while meeting resiliency, security, and auditability requirements. Proven experience guiding enterprise technology adoption, including target states, patterns, paved paths, and scalable integration. Demonstrated depth in a core technical domain (e.g., cloud, app, data/AI, platform architectures) plus enterprise breadth. Strong understanding across business, data, app, and technology architecture domains. Excellent communication skills, translating complex subjects for senior and non-technical audiences. Proven ability to influence business and technology leaders and drive change across engineering and product organizations. Experience developing implementable standards and paved paths with measurable adoption outcomes. Experience embedding risk, control, compliance, and resilience considerations into architecture practices. Preferred Qualifications, Skills, and Expertise Experience with formal architecture governance frameworks (e.g., TOGAF or equivalent). Exposure to modern paradigms including cloud, AI/data, distributed systems, and platform-based architectures. Experience with engineering practices and software development (e.g., CI/CD, IaC, observability). Relevant certifications (e.g., TOGAF, cloud, ITIL, CISSP, PMP). Track record driving enterprise-wide initiatives improving consistency, reuse, and efficiency. Experience working in regulated environments (e.g., operational resilience, third party/concentration risks). ABOUT US 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 ABOUT THE TEAM Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. 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