Senior Lead Architect, Vice President: Payments

Senior Lead Architect

If you are excited about shaping the future of technology and driving significant business impact in financial services, we are looking for people just like you. Join our team and help us develop game-changing, high-quality solutions.

As a Senior Lead Architect at JPMorgan Chase within the Merchant Payments team of Commercial Investment Banking org, you are an integral part of a team that works to develop high-quality architecture solutions for various software applications and platforms products. You drive significant business impact and help shape the target state architecture through your capabilities in multiple architecture domains.

Job responsibilities:

• Engages business and technology stakeholder to discuss and propose design approaches to meet current and future needs of various business initiatives
• As a member of the team, build trusted relationships with business and technical decision makers in the customer's organization to provide business and technical thought leadership
• Identifies opportunities to modernize platform capabilities along with business initiatives
• Helps define strategy, roadmap for product go to market and breakdown of technical delivery
• Helps define the target state of their product and drives achievement of the strategy
• Participates in architecture governance bodies
• Evaluates recommendations and provides feedback on business needs, options to get to market
• Executes 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 problems
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• 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
• Practical cloud native experience

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Strong experience in acquiring/merchant services payment understanding
• Experience with in-store or eCommerce merchant payments
• Ability to understand business requirements, create design, create technical delivery roadmap and technical know hows
• Strong technical background with design and delivery experience with software patterns and principles
• Advanced knowledge of one or more software, applications, and architecture disciplines
• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Experience as a functional architect (business/product)
• Experience with domain model, understands business process flow, client experience and use cases
• Understands business capability, features taxonomy
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Point of Sale experience is a plus.
• Biometrics experience is a plus
• Strong communication and leadership presence