Lead Architect - Java, Kubernetes
JPMorgan Chase3 days ago
Mumbai, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Engage technical teams and business stakeholders to propose approaches that meet current and future needs.
- Define the technical target state and drive execution of product architecture strategy.
- Evaluate technologies, vendor solutions, startups, and architectural designs for applicability.
- Design, develop, troubleshoot, review, and debug secure, high-quality production software.
- Improve operational stability by eliminating or automating recurring remediation work.
- Establish reusable AI-enabled engineering patterns and governance with traceability, auditability, resiliency, and security controls.
Requirements
- Formal training or certification in architecture concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
- Hands-on experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability for large-scale distributed mission-critical systems.
- Advanced programming experience with Java 17+, Spring Boot, and microservices.
- Proficiency with SDLC execution, continuous delivery automation, application resiliency, security, and agile methods.
- Experience evaluating and integrating AI-enabled capabilities into cloud-native architectures with validation, data-sensitivity, resiliency, security, and auditability controls.
- Strong architecture knowledge covering event-driven and streaming systems, Kafka, CQRS, Saga, domain-driven design, API design, data modeling, Oracle, SQL, NoSQL, ODS, data lakes, data warehouses, OLTP, and OLAP.
- Practical experience with AWS or equivalent cloud platforms, Docker, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, and observability.
- Experience with architecture modeling tools such as C4, UML, or Lucid, plus the ability to solve complex design problems and influence senior stakeholders.
- Knowledge of financial-services IT systems is required; preferred experience includes intraday liquidity, cash management, payments, reconciliation, BCBS 248, cloud architecture certification, TOGAF, SRE practices, chaos engineering, FinOps, agentic AI or GenAI, RAG, orchestration, guardrails, evaluation, monitoring, reference architectures, legacy modernization, hybrid or multi-cloud, Redis, and Hazelcast.
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About JPMorgan Chase
JPMorgan Chase provides consumer and commercial banking, payments, credit card, wealth management, and corporate and investment banking services to individuals, businesses, institutions, and governments. The public company (NYSE: JPM) earns revenue from interest, fees, trading, and asset management across operations in more than 100 markets. Headquartered in New York City with roots dating to 1799, it serves retail customers and prominent corporate and government clients through brands including Chase and J.P. Morgan.