Step into the role of a Principal Architect at JPMorganChase and become a driving force behind the development and adoption of cutting-edge, cloud-based technologies.

As a Principal Architect at JPMorganChase within the Market Expansion team of Commercial and Investment Banking, your passion for technology and thirst for innovation will help shape the future of global digital commerce, now and for years to come. As part of our JPM Payments Architecture Group, you will immerse yourself in solving complex business problems through innovation and proven and repeatable engineering practice. You will partner with Product Teams, Application development teams and other Technology and Operational and teams across the group and the firm, developing an extensive personal network that will allow you to influence and provide technical and architectural leadership and mentoring. You will work on a number of projects which will require differing approaches for success and will depend heavily on collaboration with our colleagues to deliver business results.

The Architecture function is a central team that operates horizontally across the 5,000+ technologists delivering business solutions in the Payments Technology organization. We have responsibility for setting standards, policies and driving the documentation and adoption of pragmatic architectural patterns as we establish consistency and optimized technical outcomes in support of our aggressive business goals.

Job responsibilities

Leads discussions with business and technology stakeholder to design approaches to meet current and future needs of various business initiativesBuilds trusted relationships with business and technical decision makers in the customer’s organization to provide business and technical thought leadershipIdentifies opportunities to modernize platform capabilities along with business initiativesHelp defines strategy, roadmap for product go to market and breakdown of technical delivery Help defines the target state of their product and drives achievement of the strategyExecutes 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 problemsIdentifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systemsLeads 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 Participates in architecture governance bodiesEmbrace a culture of inclusive decision making with proactive and thoughtful engagement across Technology, Business and Operations

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 7+ years applied experienceStrong technical background with design and delivery experience with software patterns and principlesStrong experience in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)Significant hands-on experience designing, delivering, optimizing, and modernizing complex distributed systems low-latency systems, from the backend to the UIAbility to understand business requirements and complex systems and provide pragmatic and actionable recommendations, solutions, technical delivery roadmaps, etc. with little to no oversight.Experience with domain model, understands business process flow, client experience and use casesStrategic thinking and passion for business strategy and business processesDrives decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processesAbility to work collaboratively in teams and develop meaningful relationships to achieve common goalsAdept at working in globally diverse teams across different time zones and forging relationships with key business stakeholders and development teamsEffective communication and presentation skills both to business and technical audienceExcellent and proven analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to decompose a large problem into smaller executable piecesAdds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respectPreferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills  Experience in Treasury Services, Cash Management or Global Transaction Banking would be an advantageExperience in risk and risk control complianceExperience in networking and security concepts and designExperience in vendor software package evaluations using assessment frameworksExperience in complex software package integrations and data migrations