Senior Lead Architect-Enterprise Architecture

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 in Corporate Technology, you'll shape how our platforms are designed and built—from early concepts through production. You'll set clear architecture direction, help teams deliver resilient systems, and turn complex technical tradeoffs into practical plans that improve reliability, speed, and long-term maintainability.

Job responsibilities

• Define target and transitional architectures and set practical guardrails for resiliency across application, data, and integration layers
• Lead solution design from concept to production, creating ADRs, HLDs, and LLDs that align to enterprise reference architectures and controls
• Run or contribute to design councils, perform architecture/design reviews, and manage exceptions and technical risk with clear remediation plans
• Guide implementation details (service boundaries, API contracts, data models, error handling, idempotency, failure modes, back-pressure)
• Ensure designs include HA/DR, observability (logs/metrics/traces), and capacity/performance considerations, and are ready for chaos and DR testing
• Embed resiliency NFRs (RTO/RPO, SLO/SLI, MTTR) into designs and influence testing strategies (failure injection, DR tests, automated runbooks)
• Identify and drive automation opportunities (anomaly detection, incident triage, playbook automation, self-healing) and define AI/ML integration patterns within security, privacy, and model risk guardrails

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Back-end experience with Java/Spring, REST, Python, messaging, caching
• Front-end experience with React, micro-frontends (MFEs), and performance/error boundary patterns
• Experience with data platforms: relational databases (e.g., Oracle, Cockroach), graph databases (e.g., Neo4J, TigerGraph), and data lake implementations
• Proven ability to produce HLDs/LLDs and enforce architecture through reviews, patterns, and standards
• Hands-on knowledge of resiliency patterns (circuit breakers, bulkheads, retries with jitter, timeouts, idempotency, saga/compensation, blue-green/canary, multi-AZ/region, active-active/active-passive DR)
• Strong observability and reliability practices (metrics/SLIs/SLOs, tracing, log correlation, error budgets, chaos testing, incident postmortems)
• Working knowledge of CI/CD, infrastructure as code, containerization/orchestration, and secure SDLC practices
• Experience using AI/ML tooling to improve productivity, including GenAI/agentic capabilities in architecture work

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience using AI/ML for operations automation such as anomaly/outlier detection, predictive capacity, root-cause hints, and agentic runbook execution
• Familiarity with Python or Scala for data/ML use cases, including model operationalization and responsible-AI guardrails
• Strong communication skills and the ability to influence cross-functional engineering, product, and operations partners
• Knowledge of cloud data platforms and hybrid architectures, including data governance and lineage
• Experience building for financial services, regulated environments, or other mission-critical systems
• Certifications such as TOGAF, cloud certifications, or SRE certifications

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. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.