Principal Architect - Payments jobs at Jpmorgan in India, Bengaluru

Job Responsibilities:

• Use domain modeling techniques to build best-in-class business products.
• Structure software for ease of understanding, testing, and evolution.
• Build scalable solutions that avoid single points of failure.
• Develop secure code to protect customers and the company from malicious actors.
• Investigate and resolve issues promptly, ensuring they do not resurface.
• Ensure zero downtime for end-users during releases.
• Optimize data writing and reading for our needs.
• Monitor performance and identify solutions to problems.
• Ensure systems are reliable and easy to operate.
• Continuously update technologies and patterns to keep us current.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts with 5+ years of applied experience.
• Experience with JVM-based languages (Java/Kotlin) and cloud-native solutions.
• Familiarity with open-source technologies and multi-cloud solutions.
• Ability to independently assess problems and select appropriate technologies.
• Willingness to explore new solutions while focusing on long-lasting, real-world problem-solving.
• Desire to teach and share knowledge, valuing team collaboration over individual heroics.
• Ability to adjust quickly to changing priorities and conditions.
• Long-term vision, choosing technologies and approaches based on end goals.
• High standards for personal and team performance.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Initiative to shape your own path with a pragmatic and iterative approach.
• Ethical integrity, earning and maintaining trust.

Job responsibilities

• Advises and leads on the strategy and development of multiple products, applications, and technologies across a portfolio
• Creates novel code solutions and drives the development of new production code capabilities across teams and functions
• Translates highly complex technical issues, trends, and approaches to leadership to drive the firm’s innovation and enable leaders to make strategic, well-informed decisions about technology advancements
• Drives adoption and implementation of technical methods in specialized fields in line with the latest product development methodologies
• Creates durable, reusable software frameworks that are leveraged across teams and functions
• Influences across business, product, and technology teams and successfully manages senior stakeholder relationships
• Champions the firm’s culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Job responsibilities

• Designs and delivers trusted data collection, storage, access, and analytics data platform solutions in a secure, stable, and scalable way
• Supports review of controls to ensure sufficient protection of enterprise data
• Advises and makes custom configuration changes in one to two tools to generate a product at the business or customer request
• Updates logical or physical data models based on new use cases
• Frequently uses SQL and understands NoSQL databases and their niche in the marketplace
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on Data engineering concepts and 3+ years applied experience

• Hands-on professional experience (actively coding) working as a data engineer
• Good hands on experience in Python, Snowflake and Databricks
• Experience across the data lifecycle
• Advanced at SQL (e.g., joins and aggregations)
• Working understanding of NoSQL databases
• Significant experience with statistical data analysis and ability to determine appropriate tools and data patterns to perform analysis
• Experience customizing changes in a tool to generate product
• Experience with containers and container-based deployment environment (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Understanding of (distributed and non-distributed) data structures, caching concepts, CAP theorem
• A solid approach to writing unit level tests using mocking frameworks, as well as automating component, integration and end-to-end tests
• Experience in automating deployment, releases and testing in continuous integration, continuous delivery pipelines
• Understanding of security frameworks / standards and privacy

Job Responsibilities:

• Identify and resolve control gaps in supported organizations.
• Work on issues and action plans to completion.
• Prepare for compliance tests, audits, and regulatory exams.
• Partner with controls to document and mitigate risks.
• Collaborate with business leads to consider risks and controls.
• Build relationships with internal customers and support functions.
• Improve control environment with stakeholders and colleagues.
• Communicate effectively with operations leaders and stakeholders.
• Review and recommend methods to strengthen controls.
• Perform root cause analysis and document resolution steps.
• Execute project plans and monitor open issues.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Demonstrate experience in internal stakeholder management.
• Challenge the status quo and act as a catalyst for improvement.
• Communicate complex issues effectively to senior management.
• Influence others through strong partnerships across CCB Operations.
• Understand business functions and operational processes.
• Solve problems with strong analytical skills.
• Manage line/risk with a solid understanding of concepts.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Work in a customer-centric industry.
• Present complex issues clearly to senior management.
• Manage and prioritize multiple initiatives in dynamic environments.
• Communicate effectively with strong interpersonal skills.
• Engage with diverse operational activities and functions.
• Demonstrate a proactive approach to problem-solving.
• Exhibit a positive attitude and team spirit.

Additional Details:

• Schedule: Monday through Friday, 05:30 PM to 02:30 AM Indian Standard Time.
• Visa Sponsorship: This role does not offer visa sponsorship.
• Work Arrangement: This is an in-office position requiring on-site work all five days a week.

Job responsibilities

• Design and architect scalable, responsive applications using modern technologies and frameworks.
• Collaborate with product managers, developers, and UX/UI designers to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Ensure all applications adhere to industry-standard security best practices and compliance requirements.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams throughout the project lifecycle.
• Evaluate and recommend new technologies and tools to enhance the development process and product quality.
• 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

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
• Proven experience as a Solution Architect or similar role in self-service or assisted customer facing application development.
• In-depth knowledge of industry-standard security best practices for customer facing applications.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud and in building cloud-native application
• Experience in domain driven design, data modeling, micro services architecture, event & streaming technologies and best practices.
• Advanced experience in API design and management, Service definition and consumption including API, brokers, REST APIs
• Defining Non-functional requirements and architectures to satisfy availability, extensibility, and resiliency needs
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s)
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools for continuous integration and deployment.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with AI/ML, LLM and Generative AI is preferred.
• AWS Certification preferred
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Ability to work well at a conceptual and practical levels, resolve ambiguity, and to drive concepts out into workable solutions
• Ability to define target state architectures, and develop realistic transition plans for achieving target state
• Hands-on experience modeling with UML, object-oriented constructs, or other modeling language
• Experience with formal enterprise architecture models and tooling, such as TOGAF