DescriptionWe have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.
As an Applied Architecture Lead at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Sector in Infrastructure Platforms space, you’ll bring critical thought leadership working with a team of Customers, Architects, Engineers, and Product owners alike, creating common sense and Strategic Target State Architectures for JPMC's private and public cloud and be responsible for leading and driving the delivery and implementation of your Architecture.
We are a global team of Applied Architects (New Jersey, Glasgow, London) who drive architecture and engineering efforts in Infrastructure Platforms(IP). IP is the centralized enterprise technology provider to all Lines of Businesses in JP Morgan Chase; think of multiple banks within a bank. Within IP; our team is part of the Compute Platforms (CP) group. CP is responsible for the core technology platforms Infrastructure As a Service(IaaS) and associated Compute, Network and Storage Services for both public and private clouds. Our team is called CP Applied Architecture and we take the "applied" part seriously - we don't just draw diagrams and write documents, we are intimately involved with delivering the systems we touch. Our products serve over a large set of Business Applications (most of them mission critical) and supports thousands of technology components and enterprise developers.
The ideal candidate is a hands-on-technologist with significant experience in architecture and engineering modern infrastructure platforms and services, including development of API best practices, enabling Cloud Solutions and Infrastructure as Code. We are looking for someone who understands the end-to-end view of Product , Application and Service offering and how to leverage industry best practices. We expect your passion for technology and thirst for problem solving will help shape the future of our public and private cloud platforms. Every day, you’ll bring critical thought leadership to the table, working with a team of architects, engineers, and product owners alike, creating strategically sound Target State Architectures for JPMC's public and private cloud. You will be working cross-product in the Compute Platform Product Lines which means you are responsible for ensuring these products' capabilities are consumable, consistent and interoperable.
You will own and maintain the architecture vision and horizon view for that vision. You'll have a stakeholder say in setting roadmap priorities and fostering a customer-centric environment. At the end of the day, your work will have tremendous and positive impact, whether it’s in-house, in collaboration with technologists across JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s global technology community or in partnership with some of the most important tech firms in the world.
Job responsibilities
- Take initiative, ownership to identify, collaborate and solve problems including documentation of problem statement and clear requirements.
- Bring a customer-centric approach to problem solving to come up with innovative, practical solutions and designing fit for purpose solutions.
- Deliver Strategic Architecture Design and work with all the stakeholders to get buy-in and engagement on the architecture strategy and adoption.
- Contribute and able to influence stakeholders, form virtual teams where necessary to drive solutions.
- Gather, analyzes, synthesizes, and develops visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems
- Identify hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture
- Lead and guide the design, development of reusable components.
- Drive strategic long-term improvement plans that take into account the critical, underlying and less apparent relationships between multiple complex business, technology and systems platforms.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience
- Hands-on experience designing simplified enterprise infrastructure architecture for very large organizations.
- Expert in making Architecture goals consumable through iterative delivery across all levels of the organization.
- Proficient in and experience across the data lifecycle
- Experience in one of more modern programming languages. Proficient knowledge on at least few of the below technologies :
- Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods and all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Cloud technologies (VMware, AWS, Azure, Google)
- Automation frameworks (Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, SCCM)
- Security (Identity and Access Management)
- Web & Application Servers (Apache / IIS / Tomcat)
- Database, Messaging and Monitoring
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Significant, demonstrable hands-on experience designing simplified enterprise infrastructure architecture for very large organizations.
- Expert in making Architecture goals consumable through iterative delivery across all levels of the organization.
- Experience at working both autonomously and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment with communication skills at all levels.
- Demonstrated examples of influencing & challenging the status quo and solving problems along with strong decision making skills to manage inter-dependent programs with virtual teams.
