Senior Lead Architect - Asset & Wealth Management (AWM)

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 Asset & Wealth Management (AWM), 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

• Understand and represent the requirements of the Asset Management business and their alignment into a business architecture metamodel.
• Serves as a function‑wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus across Asset Management architecture.
• Represents architecture strategy on cross‑domain change initiatives to CTO level.
• Provides feedback and proposes improvements to architecture governance practices.
• Provides thought leadership and development for the System of Record for AM Architecture and is capable of operating in the capacity of a Product Owner.
• Fosters collaboration across the federated architecture teams to reinforce the effectiveness of a common operating framework.
• Regularly provides guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams across all facets of architecture.
• Drive decisions that influence product design, application functionality, technical operations and processes.
• Actively engages the engineering community as an advocate of firm‑wide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Influences peers and project decision‑makers to understand leading‑edge technologies.
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 10+ years of experience in architecture roles and facing off to senior stakeholders.
• Hands‑on practical experience delivering solution design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Experience in one or more architecture methodologies, solution design, C4 notation, ARx notation.
• Experience working with established Architecture frameworks and modelling tools such as TOGAF, Zachman, ArchiMate.
• Advanced knowledge of software architecture, applications, and technical processes with in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.).
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight.
• Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to select or recommend the best solutions for the future state architecture.
• Be highly organized, a great communicator and be a strong advocate for instilling the best possible architecture skills into the Architecture practice.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 10+ years in Financial service, preferably Asset Management.
• Product Owner experience leading the direction and strategy of Architecture Tooling.
• Development of communities of practice and driving collaboration/partnership.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

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.