Drive modernization for critical banking operations on Cash & Check Management team within Operations

As a Senior Lead Architect at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer & Community Banking Operations Technology team, you are an integral part of a group that designs and delivers high-quality architecture solutions for software applications and platform products. In this role, you serve as the Architecture Lead for the Cash and Check Management product in Consumer & Community Banking Operations Technology, promoting modernization efforts and supporting a critical banking function that impacts the entire firm. You leverage deep expertise across multiple architecture domains to shape the target-state architecture, deliver significant business value, and ensure the scalability, resilience, and strategic alignment of the firm’s technology landscape.

Job responsibilities:

• Lead the architectural design and modernization of critical banking operations within Consumer & Community BankingOperations Technology
• Leverages enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate architecture analysis and decisioning across the product family, 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.
• Define and drive target state architecture for critical banking functions
• Ensure alignment of technology solutions with business objectives and regulatory requirements
• Mentor and guide engineering teams on best practices and architectural standards
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption where appropriate
• Develop and maintain architectural documentation and roadmaps
• Support incident resolution and root cause analysis for architecture-related issues
• Partner with stakeholders to prioritize and deliver impactful technology initiatives
• Promote innovation and continuous improvement within the architecture team

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Proven experience in designing and implementing enterprise-scale architecture solutions
• Strong knowledge of modernization strategies for legacy systems
• Expertise in cloud technologies and distributed systems
• Experience with banking operations and financial services technology
• Demonstrated experience applying enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment in architecture and engineering workflows with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity.
• Ability to evaluate and integrate AI-enabled capabilities into enterprise-grade architectures while meeting resiliency, security, and auditability requirements.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management abilities
• Familiarity with regulatory and compliance requirements in financial services
• Experience with Agile and DevOps methodologies
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Experience with Cash and Check Management systems
• Prior experience in architecting solutions for critical bank functions
• Certification in cloud architecture (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience with modernization of mainframe and legacy applications
• Demonstrated ability to drive firmwide impact through technology leadership