Senior Lead Architect

As a Lead Architect at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Banking - Engineering & Architecture team, you are an integral part of a team that works to develop high-quality architecture solutions for various software applications on modern cloud-based technologies. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical architecture solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of project goals.

Job responsibilities

• Defines strategy, roadmap for product go to market
• Defines the target state of their product and drives achievement of the strategy
• Engages business and technology stakeholder to discuss and propose design approaches to meet current and future needs
• Participates in architecture governance bodies
• Evaluates recommendations and provides feedback on business needs, options to get to market
• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on acquiring / merchant services payment understanding concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Strong experience in acquiring / merchant services payment understanding
• Strong technical background with design and delivery experience with software patterns and principles
• Advanced knowledge of one or more software, applications, and architecture disciplines
• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (eg, cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc)
• Experience as a functional architect (business / product)
• Ability to understand business requirements, create design, create technical delivery roadmap and technical know hows
• Experience with domain model, understands business process flow, client experience and use cases
• Understands business capability, features taxonomy
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
• Practical cloud native experience

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Merchant Services / acquiring payment experience
• Point of Sale experience is a plus
• Biometrics experience is a plus