Executive Director, Solutions Architect
J.P. Morgan
Join us as an Executive Director for the Global Liquidity and Cash Management (GLCM) Solutions Architect Team and shape the future of our enterprise architecture. You’ll drive impactful design leadership, influence multi-year strategy, and partner with talented leaders across Product, Technology, Operations, and Business. At JPMorganChase, you’ll have the opportunity to innovate, grow your career, and make a meaningful difference in a collaborative, inclusive environment.
Job Summary:
As an Executive Director in the GLCM Solutions Architect Team, you will own the target-state functional architecture for Global Liquidity and Account Solutions (GLASS), ensuring alignment with firm strategy and regulatory expectations. You will set architectural direction, act as a senior design authority, and partner with cross-functional leaders to deliver business-critical solutions. Your leadership will drive innovation, risk management, and continuous improvement, while fostering a high-performing and collaborative team culture.
Job Responsibilities:
- Define and own the target-state functional architecture for GLASS, ensuring strategic and regulatory alignment.
- Set architectural direction and guardrails across multiple programmes and value streams.
- Act as senior design authority, accountable for architectural integrity, risk posture, and strategic alignment.
- Partner with Product, Operations, and Business leadership to translate strategy into architectural outcomes and prioritize investments.
- Evaluate and challenge product strategy and requirements, ensuring alignment to target architecture.
- Drive enterprise-level innovation, recommending and sponsoring technology advances.
- Own architectural risk management, identifying systemic risks and driving mitigation strategies.
- Ensure compliance with Security, Data Privacy, IT&S, and Architecture Standards.
- Produce and sponsor executive-level architecture artefacts, including blueprints and roadmaps.
- Lead and mentor the Architecture & Design community, raising architectural maturity.
- Drive continuous improvement of Solution Architecture processes, embedding AI-enabled capabilities and set clear standards and measurable goals, embedding accountability through regular assessments.
Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:
- Experience as an enterprise or executive design authority, owning architectural outcomes across programmes and domains.
- Deep experience with global, cross-functional teams spanning infrastructure, engineering, data, operations, product, and business leadership.
- Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills, influencing senior executives and translating complex concepts.
- Strong architectural judgement with a track record of proposing strategically aligned alternatives.
- Strategic mindset with experience defining multi-year technology and architecture strategies.
- Experience engaging with vendors and strategic partners, providing architectural oversight.
- Strong understanding of enterprise data integration patterns, including ETL, event-driven architectures, APIs, and publish-subscribe models.
- Broad familiarity with modern technology stacks, including relational and non-relational databases, Java-based platforms, and distributed systems.
- Experience leading and developing senior architecture teams, including coaching and performance management.
Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:
- Proven ability to optimise team skillsets and capacity, investing in capability uplift.
- Experience aligning individual development objectives to organisational priorities.
- Strong track record of enabling cross-team collaboration and culture building.
- Experience setting clear performance standards, conducting regular reviews, and formal assessments.
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.
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.
Lead the strategic architecture vision for Global Liquidity and Cash Management (GLCM), driving design excellence, innovation, and cross-team collaboration across the enterprise.
