Senior Lead Architect, Enterprise Architecture
On-site · Columbus, Ohio, United States
Job Summary
Senior Lead Architect responsible for developing high-quality architecture solutions for software applications and platform products at JPMorgan Chase. Partners with engineering and product teams to review and improve architectures, conduct architecture risk assessments, and lead rationalization and optimization initiatives. Maintains documentation standards (HLD, C4 diagrams, ADRs) and mentors architects and engineers on secure-by-design principles and best practices. Drives threat modeling, collaborates with security/compliance stakeholders, evaluates emerging technologies (including AI/ML platforms), facilitates design reviews, and contributes to architecture forums to promote architectural excellence and knowledge sharing.
Required Qualifications
- Formal training or certification in software engineering and architecture concepts
- 5+ years of applied experience combining architecture and hands-on development
- End-to-end SDLC expertise with delivery of system design, application development, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and production operations/support
- Deep understanding of large-scale distributed platforms including microservices, event-driven and data streaming systems, data pipelines, APIs, and cloud-native architectures
- Proficiency in architecture documentation practices: HLDs, C4 diagrams, ADRs, sequence diagrams
- Experience assessing architecture and operational risks and developing remediation strategies
- Experience evaluating and designing security architectures and control procedures; knowledge of threat modeling, identity and access patterns, data protection, and compliance frameworks
- Strong engineering fundamentals with modern stacks (Java/.NET/Node/Python, containers/Kubernetes, IaC, messaging, RDBMS/NoSQL, API gateways, service mesh)
- Hands-on experience with observability and SRE practices (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, logging, metrics, tracing, incident management, capacity planning)
- Analytical skills for portfolio assessments, capability mapping, and target-state roadmaps
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills tailored to technical and non-technical audiences
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