Lead Architect
J.P. Morgan
IT
bournemouth, uk
Posted on Oct 3, 2025
Lead Architect
BOURNEMOUTH, DORSET, United Kingdom
Job Information
- Job Identification 210671315
- Job Category Architecture
- Business Unit Commercial & Investment Bank
- Posting Date 10/03/2025, 08:07 PM
- Locations Chaseside - Hampshire Building, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH7 7DA, GB
- Job Schedule Full time
- Job Shift Day
Job Description
A career with us is a journey, not a destination. This could be the next best step in your technical career. Join us.
As the Lead Architect at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial Investment and Bank for Market Tech- Sales, Research, and Data portfolio, you will serve as a technical leader and subject matter expert, championing architectural excellence in cloud deployments. You will work closely with leadership, engineering leads, and teams to create target architectures that are resilient, future-ready, and aligned with business goals. This position offers the chance to influence enterprise-wide standards, collaborate with talented teams, and play a crucial role in our modernization journey.
Job responsibilities
- Engages technical teams and business stakeholders to discuss and propose technical approaches to define target state architectures for applications across our AWS and on-premises portfolio, ensuring alignment with broader enterprise architecture and firmwide standards and business strategy.
- Represent the Sales, Research and Data in firmwide technical governance meetings, providing feedback and driving improvements in architecture governance practices and opinionated.
- Guide the evaluation of current technologies and lead the assessment of new solutions using established standards and frameworks.
- Provide technical direction and mentorship to engineering teams, fostering best practices in cloud-native design and development.
- Understand business needs and opportunities to inform architectural decisions and strategic direction.
- Drive decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations, balancing innovation with operational stability.
- Serve as a subject matter expert in enterprise architecture, cloud modernization, and AWS best practices.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software architecture concepts and proficient advanced experience.
- Demonstrable experience designing and delivering cloud-native solutions.
- Advanced knowledge of software architecture, application design, and technical processes, with expertise in at least one architecture pillar (Business, Application, Data, Infrastructure).
- Proven ability to evaluate and recommend current and emerging technologies for future-state architecture.
- Skilled in verbal, written, and diagrammatic communication, with the ability to adapt style for diverse audiences.
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Experience guiding teams through modernization programs, including cloud migration and roadmap creation.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- AWS certification (Solutions Architect or higher) strongly preferred
- Demonstrable experience designing and delivering cloud-native solutions, preferably on AWS
About Us
J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
About the Team
J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.
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