JP Morgan Chase

Runs a consumer bank and an investment bank

Senior Lead Architect

IT OperationsUpdated on Nov 14

Full-time$142.5k - $260kIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

Formal training or certification in architecture concepts and at least 5 years of applied experience.
Deep expertise across two or three technology domains, with mastery in at least one.
Experience delivering or driving large-scale architecture transformation programs spanning multiple organizations.
Ability to write strategic narratives, investment cases, and reference patterns with strong visual and written communication.
Ability to work with minimal oversight, occasional leadership checkpoints, and ownership of results across multiple horizons.
Working knowledge of financial services and regulatory expectations and how they shape architectural decisions.
Ability to evaluate and integrate AI-enabled capabilities into enterprise-grade architectures while meeting resiliency, security, and auditability requirements.

Responsibilities

Help define architectural direction for major cross-firm programs spanning multiple organizations.
Influence firm-level architectural initiatives such as resilience, simplification, inventory, entitlements, or agentic development.
Author reference patterns and narratives focused on emerging and existing technology challenges across the firm.
Contribute to working groups and standards forums that set governance standards and drive firmwide change.
Mediate between organizations to converge on shared architectural target states and paved paths when localized approaches diverge.
Remain hands-on, focus on difficult technology problems, review designs, and deliver code as needed.
Influence technology leaders across functions and help activate their organizations to adopt and champion architectural direction.
Align architectural target states, standards, and paved paths with multi-year business strategies, operational constraints, and ongoing technology initiatives.
Make the case for major technology investments based on architectural recommendations, clearly articulating tradeoffs such as costs, risks, and timelines.
Use enterprise-authorized AI capabilities to accelerate architecture analysis and decision-making, with human-in-the-loop validation and appropriate handling of sensitive data.

Desired Qualifications

Prior experience as a Lead Architect or equivalent at JPMorgan Chase or a comparable institution.
Demonstrated record of delivering large-scale architectural platforms or programs that other organizations adopt.
TOGAF, advanced architecture certifications in technology domains such as CISSP, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, or CDMP, or comparable credentials.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

We are hiring a Senior Lead Architect within the Enterprise Architecture (GT Enterprise Architecture) to drive architectural direction for major cross-firm programs at JPMorgan Chase. You will influence one or two multi-year architecture programs and help set the target state architecture, standards, and paved paths that our organizations rely on and that make adoption the easiest choice.

This is a strategic individual contributor role with broad scope but not a paper-based role. We expect you to remain hands-on, focus on our hardest technology problems, mediate between organizations that disagree on how to solve these problems, and be a trusted advisor whom leaders – especially other architects – can call when something is critical.

Job Responsibilities

- Help define architectural direction for major cross-firm programs spanning multiple organizations in JPMorgan Chase.
- Influence firm level architectural initiatives such as resilience, simplification, inventory, entitlements, or agentic development.
- Author reference patterns and narratives focused on emerging and existing technology challenges across the firm.
- Contribute to working groups and standards forums that set the bar for effective governance and help drive firmwide change.
- Mediate between organizations to converge on shared architectural target states and paved paths when localized approaches diverge.
- Stay hands-on and focus on our hardest technology problems including reviewing design and delivering code as needed.
- Influence the decisions of technology leaders across functions and help activate their organizations to adopt and champion architectural direction.
- Align architectural target states, standards, and paved paths with multi-year business strategies, operational constraints, and ongoing technology initiatives.
- Make the case for major technological investments based on architectural recommendations with clearly articulate tradeoffs (e.g., costs, risks, timelines).
Leverages enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate architecture analysis and decisioning across the product family, with human-in-the-loop validation and appropriate handling of sensitive data.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
Formal training or certification on architecture concepts and 5+ years applied experience
Deep expertise across two or three technology domains with mastery in at least one.
Experience delivering or driving large-scale architecture transformation programs that span multiple organizations.
Strong visual and written communication. We expect you to write strategic narratives, investment cases, and reference patterns.
Ability to work with minimal oversight, occasional checkpoints with leadership, and ownership of results across multiple horizons.
Working knowledge of financial services, our regulatory expectations, how these shape architectural decisions.
Ability to evaluate and integrate AI-enabled capabilities into enterprise-grade architectures while meeting resiliency, security, and auditability requirements.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

- Prior experience as a Lead Architect – or equivalent – at JPMorgan Chase or a comparable institution.
- Demonstrated record of delivering large-scale architectural platforms or programs that other organizations adopt.
- TOGAF, advanced architecture certifications in your technology domains (e.g., CISSP, AWS Certified SA - Pro, CDMP), or comparable credentials.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Base Pay/Salary: Jersey City,NJ $175,750.00-$260,000.00; Columbus,OH $142,500.00-$215,000.00; Plano,TX $152,000.00-$225,000.00

About the Company

JP Morgan Chase

Runs a consumer bank and an investment bank

JPMorgan Chase runs the largest bank in the United States, which serves households and small businesses as Chase and large companies, governments, and investors as J.P. Morgan. During the 2008 financial crisis it bought the failing investment bank Bear Stearns and lender Washington Mutual, and in 2023 it took over First Republic Bank after regulators seized it. Chase takes deposits and earns interest on credit cards, mortgages, and car loans, while the investment side earns fees for advising on mergers, raising money for companies, trading stocks and bonds, and managing wealth. Formed in a 2000 merger, JPMorgan Chase traces its roots to 1799 and is based in New York City.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: IPO
Headquarters: New York City, New York
Founded: 1799

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