Job Abstract

As a Lead Architect in JPMorgan Chase, you will be an integral part of a team that works to develop high-quality architecture solutions for various software applications on modern cloud-based technologies. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical architecture solutions across multiple technical areas within the Aumni platform, a software analytics platform that empowers venture capital firms to make data driven decisions based on their portfolio of private investments. This role will focus primarily on systems architecture, unlocking future product roadmap by empowering product engineering teams with capabilities and processes that allow them to move independently and safely within a wide technical ecosystem. Due to the nature of the business domain, this will require depth of knowledge around data engineering, distributed messaging, independent service architecture, modern frontend technologies, and security.

Job responsibilities:

· Engages technical teams and business stakeholders to discuss and propose technical approaches to meet current and future needs

· Defines the technical target state of their product and drives achievement of the strategy

· Participates in architecture governance bodies

· Evaluates recommendations and provides feedback on new technologies

· 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

· Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others

· 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

Required qualification, capabilities and skills:

· Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience

· Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability

· Advanced in one or more programming language(s), preferentially Java and/or Ruby

· Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods

· Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle

· Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security

· Demonstrated proficiency in distributed messaging and microservice architecture

· In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems

· Practical cloud native experience

· Advanced knowledge of one or more software, applications, and architecture disciplines

· Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to recommend the best solutions for the future state architecture

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills:

· Experience managing and scaling Kafka for messaging

· Experience building spring-boot based microservices

· Proficiency with Ruby on Rails a plus

· Proficiency with contract-testing with Pact or an equivalent

· Experience architecting data transformation pipelines

· Proficiency with common SQL database technologies, specifically Postgresql

· Experience with task orchestration systems such as Apache Airflo