Lead Architect

Job Description

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As a Lead Architect at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer & Community Banking 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

• Lead the architecture, design, and roadmap for payment processing platforms, ensuring alignment with business objectives and industry best practices.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineering, security, and operations teams to define requirements, prioritize features, and deliver robust solutions.
• Design and document end-to-end solutions for real-time transaction processing, fraud detection, risk management, and integration with external Payment networks.
• Leverages enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate architecture discovery and decisioning, with human-in-the-loop validation and appropriate handling of sensitive data.
• Establishes reuse-first AI-enabled engineering patterns and governance across SDLC/toolchain practices, ensuring traceability/auditability, resiliency, and security controls.
• Evaluate and select appropriate technologies, frameworks, and patterns to meet scalability, reliability, and performance goals.
• Ensure compliance with PCI DSS, data privacy, and other relevant regulations.
• Drive innovation by staying current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and regulatory changes in the payments space.
• 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
• Defines the technical target state of their product and drives achievement of the strategy
• Participates in the architecture governance process, incorporates feedback, and evaluates engineering deliverables to ensure alignment with the agreed design.
  
  

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Strong understanding of payment flows, transaction lifecycle, and integration with payment networks.
• Hands-on experience with API design, microservices, cloud platforms (AWS), and event-driven systems.
• Experience applying enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment in software engineering and architecture workflows with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity.
• Ability to evaluate and integrate AI-enabled capabilities into cloud-native architectures while meeting resiliency, security, and auditability requirements.
• Proven experience in modernizing legacy platforms and migrating them to cloud-based architectures, including assessment, design, and implementation.
• Solid understanding of architectural patterns that support non-functional requirements (NFRs) such as resiliency, high availability, and low latency.
• Experience designing and implementing active-active applications for continuous service and fault tolerance.
• Ability to create and interpret architecture diagrams for system and component-level design documentation.
• Familiarity with security standards (PCI DSS), fraud and risk management, and regulatory compliance.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
  
  

• Experience with large-scale financial systems or high-availability transaction processing.
• Prior experience working with international payment schemes and multi-region deployments.