Lead Architect - Travel

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As a Lead Architect at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer and Community Banking, you are 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 various business functions in support of project goals.

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 qualifications, 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)
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle. Developing and improving engineering practices and processes
• Experience with .Net/.Net core or similar enterprise-level technologies with successfully leading enterprise level software engineering and teams in the areas of software and/or cloud service
• Exposure to JS stacks like Angular, React, Node, TypeScript, etc.
• Exposure to working with XML, JSON and NoSQL and relational databases
• Developing highly scalable data-driven applications based on structured and unstructured data sets. Exposure to Performance Engineering practices . Exposure to Architecting Automated Testing solutions
• Exposure to patterns, tools and practices for CI/CD. Using and architecting containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos, Docker Swarm)
• Deploying enterprise grade production apps in AWS, or Azure, or GCP, etc.4+ years of experience with Agile Methodology and Tools - with a willingness to help teams become agile, high performing and foster a culture of team-work and sustainable

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• A passion for following recent industry trends and technologies
• Familiarity with functional programming techniques and technologies such as Scala, Clojure, or Lisp
• Secure Software Development Lifecycle with OWASP guidelines & practices
• Analysis and Design Patterns: Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD), UML, MVVM, Microservice

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

Our Consumer & Community Banking division serves our Chase customers through a range of financial services, including personal banking, credit cards, mortgages, auto financing, investment advice, small business loans and payment processing. We're proud to lead the U.S. in credit card sales and deposit growth and have the most-used digital solutions - all while ranking first in customer satisfaction.