Senior Lead Architect- Architecture Governance
JPMorgan Chase6 days ago
Base Salary
$176k - $260k/yr
Responsibilities
- Execute and continuously improve architecture governance processes involving RFCs, ADRs, controls traceability, architecture reviews, and auditable decision records.
- Plan and run architecture governance forums, coordinating agendas, materials, attendance, voting, minutes, actions, decisions, and stakeholder communications.
- Drive and document architecture decisions balancing delivery speed, resiliency, security, operational stability, cost, maintainability, and strategic alignment.
- Develop architecture models, reusable patterns, reference implementations, and design guidance for platforms and technical products.
- Apply enterprise-authorized agentic AI to architecture analysis and governance workflows with human validation and appropriate security, resiliency, and audit controls.
- Provide technical architecture guidance to product, engineering, operations, security, risk, control, contractor, and vendor teams.
- Contribute hands-on to prototypes, automation, infrastructure definitions, reusable patterns, and technical delivery.
- Mentor technical colleagues and promote reuse of architecture patterns, tooling, and solutions.
Requirements
- Formal architecture training or certification and at least 5 years of applied experience.
- Experience executing and improving architecture governance processes, including RFCs, ADRs, controls traceability, architecture reviews, and auditable decision records.
- Experience applying enterprise-authorized agentic AI capabilities to architecture governance workflows.
- Experience with enterprise, software, and infrastructure architecture across cloud, compute, network, platforms, and resiliency engineering.
- Expertise in architecture modeling and documenting trade-offs involving availability, performance, security, cost, maintainability, and regulatory or control requirements.
- Ability to independently solve design and functionality problems with little to no oversight.
- Hands-on experience delivering system design, application or platform development, testing, and operational stability in complex production environments.
- Hands-on experience with AWS and infrastructure as code using Terraform.
- Proficiency in at least one programming language and practical experience with CI/CD tooling, automation, and software delivery practices.
- Preferred experience with mission-critical infrastructure services, financial transaction processing, payments, enterprise data, electronic trading, or high-volume digital workflows.
- Preferred experience with platform engineering, self-service capabilities, service catalogs, reusable infrastructure patterns, and API or event-driven integration.
- Preferred experience with infrastructure inventory, metadata, data quality, lineage, data contracts, data mesh, data products, and analytical or operational data platforms.
- Preferred experience designing agentic AI capabilities, reusable agent skills, Model Context Protocol integrations, context engineering, and related controls.
- Strong judgment and communication skills to influence technical direction across teams.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement is stated.
- Benefits may include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching, and other programs, subject to eligibility.
- Eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation.
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.