Lead Architect jobs at Jpmorgan in United Kingdom

Lead the forefront of innovative solutions analysis in a dynamic tech environment, driving success through expertise in data analytics and technical program delivery.

As a Lead Solutions Analyst in Enterprise Technology, you will play a central role in driving the success of our technical program delivery. Your deep understanding of applications, platforms, and products will position you as a key bridge between product owners, business, operations, and software developers. Utilizing advanced analytical reasoning and technical fluency, you will translate complex business requirements into well-structured and technically feasible solutions. You will make data-informed decisions and provide strategic insights to support key business initiatives. As a technical subject matter expert, you'll navigate ambiguity, manage change effectively, and communicate compellingly with diverse stakeholder audiences to ensure the highest quality and professionalism in service delivery.

Job responsibilities

• Lead the analysis and allocation of public cloud costs, ensuring accurate and efficient financial management across the organization
• Evaluate public cloud business opportunities, collaborating with internal teams to align financial strategies with organizational goals
• Manage and execute standard monthly billing processes for public cloud providers, ensuring accuracy and compliance
• Interpret financial data to understand changes in cloud spend, providing insights into the "hows" and "whys" of month-over-month variations
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive data-informed decision-making and support key business initiatives

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 5+ years of experience or equivalent expertise in solutions analysis, technical program delivery, or a related field
• Strong proficiency in Excel and data analysis, with the ability to handle large datasets and complex calculations
• Knowledge of public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and cloud cost management tools
• Ability to interpret and analyze financial data, providing strategic insights and recommendations
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex financial information to diverse audiences

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Holding a FinOps certification as well as the AWS Cloud Practitioner certification or equivalent for Azure/Google
• Strong understanding of cloud billing processes, financial reporting, and experience with cloud cost management platforms and tools
• Proven ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Demonstrated ability to lead through change and manage ambiguity effectively

Leverage your deep technical expertise and leadership to guide cutting-edge projects, fostering growth and innovation in a dynamic environment.

As a Lead Technical Program Manager in the EMEA Commercial & Investment Bank (CIB) Payments Technology Controls team, you will influence the successful delivery of complex technology projects and programs that will help reaching business goals across the firm. Leveraging your deep knowledge of technical principles, practices, and theories is essential for influencing innovative solutions, while simultaneously effectively reporting on resources, budgets, and high-performing teams. Your strong analytical reasoning and adaptability skills will enable you to navigate through ambiguity and change, ensuring that technology initiatives align with business goals. With advanced communication and stakeholder management abilities, you will foster productive working relationships and influence decision-making to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes. As a subject matter expert, you will contribute to the development of operational plans and risk management strategies, ensuring the highest quality and professionalism in service delivery.

Job responsibilities

• Build comprehensive knowledge and understanding of Global Technology Significant and Payments Strategic projects impacting the EMEA region. Influence outcomes with regulatory impact and reporting.
• Identify and highlight risks, proactively escalating potential roadblocks to maintain project and program momentum.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineering, product, and business stakeholders, to understand program scope, objectives, and deliverables, ensuring alignment with overall business goals.
• Build a good understanding of the regulatory landscape feeding into control forums, regulatory attestations, and incident reporting.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience or equivalent expertise in technical program management, leading complex technology projects and programs in a large organization.
• Advanced expertise in stakeholder management, with the ability to establish productive working relationships and influence decision-making across cross-functional teams and clients.
• Advanced experience in utilizing technical fluency to enable on-demand access to shared pools of applications and services.
• Demonstrated proficiency in applying analytical reasoning and problem-solving techniques to break down business, technical, or operational objectives into manageable tasks and activities.
• Good understanding of the banking regulatory landscape in the EMEA region.

As a Lead Software Engineer - Front-End Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the International Consumer Bank, you will be a part of a flat-structure organization. Your responsibilities are to deliver end-to-end cutting-edge solutions in the form of cloud-native microservices architecture applications leveraging the latest technologies and the best industry practices. You are expected to be involved in the design and architecture of the solutions while also focusing on the entire SDLC lifecycle stages.

Job responsibilities:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Create and maintain clean, efficient, and reusable codebase.
• Conduct thorough testing to ensure robustness and reliability of applications.
• Troubleshoot and debug issues, ensuring smooth application functionality.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders to gather requirements and provide progress updates.
• Mentor junior developers, providing guidance on best practices and code reviews.
• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and best practices in mobile development.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance development processes and workflows.
  

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Formal training or certification on JavaScript concepts and proficient advanced experience
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript, TypeScript, and ES6+ syntax
• Ability to write testable, clean JavaScript code
• Familiarity with writing unit tests
• Ability to work in a dynamic, agile environment within a geographically distributed team
• Ability to focus on promptly addressing customer needs
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Proficiency in React framework
• Building applications using React Native in TypeScript or JavaScript
• Native application development across Android / iOS in Kotlin / Swift
• Understanding of REST APIs and GraphQL
• Comfortable working with projects partially or fully using TypeScript
• Using latest React features such as Suspense and Hooks
• End to end testing applications with Detox / Appium / WebdriverIO

You will collaborate with colleagues from Product, Architecture, Infrastructure, Security, and Engineering to share and refine your designs, enabling a lean delivery that meets stringent non-functional requirements for security, performance, and availability.

The role sits within the Global Liquidity and Cash Management Technical Design Authority, where you will actively review and guide the architecture of multiple technical systems to align with strategic goals.

Job responsibilities

As a Lead Architect for the new core banking platform, you will:

• Design, refine, and document elegant architectural solutions (both high and low-level designs) for a high-performance, latency-sensitive system that meets security, regulatory, resiliency, scalability, and performance needs.
• Create and maintain clear, organized architectural documentation and technical specifications (written and diagrams) using industry-standard approaches (e.g., UML and C4).
• Collaborate with software engineers to share the architectural vision and guide implementation choices to ensure objectives and requirements are efficiently met.
• Engage proactively with key architectural stakeholders from security, infrastructure, architecture governance, partner systems, operations, and production management to solve complex design challenges, influence strategic architectural change, and refine application design.
• Obtain necessary system design approvals and maintain a record of architectural decisions and a review/approval process.
• Guide project/delivery managers on architectural dependencies and considerations.
• Facilitate cyber assurance and security assessments of the new core banking system design and implementation.
• Liaise with infrastructure and finance teams to estimate and forecast the application’s infrastructure needs and costs.
• Deliver creative technical solutions, thinking beyond routine approaches to achieve simple, innovative and elegant designs.
• Develop secure, high-quality production code, and review and debug code written by others.
• Lead 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.

As a Lead Architect within the Global Liquidity and Cash Management Design Authority function, you will:

• Develop a detailed understanding of the technical estate and the key businesses and essential services it supports.
• Help maintain and promote the strategic technical vision for the department’s estate.
• Collaborate with colleagues to propose and agree on strategic solutions to mitigate cross-cutting challenges.
• Review proposed technical designs against business requirements and strategic goals.
• Critically review system designs for potential weaknesses or issues.
• Develop, maintain, and review core architectural standards in collaboration with architectural governance teams.
• Promote a culture of technical innovation and knowledge sharing within the technology department.
• Guide and provide feedback on the evaluation of new technologies.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience in enterprise software development, including hands-on software/system design.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, documentation, diagramming, and presentation skills, with experience working with globally distributed teams and stakeholders.
• Experience with diagramming software (e.g., Lucid, Draw.io, Visio) and technical writing.
• Knowledge of UML 2.0+ and experience creating UML diagrams.
• Excellent understanding of Java fundamentals and frameworks (Spring Boot), OO programming paradigms, multi-threading, messaging technologies, and computer networks.
• Knowledge of infrastructure, security, networking, operating systems, virtualization, and containerization.
• Detailed knowledge of database technologies (SQL and NoSQL), database resiliency, recoverability, scalability, and security.
• Experience designing, building, or modifying a complex distributed application with stringent non-functional requirements.
• Experience with event-driven architecture and distributed messaging technologies (Kafka).
• Awareness of key architectural patterns/approaches.
• Knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and cryptography.
• Passion for technical innovation and staying up to date with emerging technologies.
• Understanding of the full software development lifecycle and agile methodologies.
• Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to recommend the best solutions for future state architecture.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Awareness of secure system design.
• Experience with Threat Modelling and/or performing security analysis of system designs.
• Experience using UML modelling tools (e.g., PlantUML).
• Experience writing technical standards and specifications.
• Project management experience.
• Experience working with many stakeholders to review and agree on a complex system design.
• Hands-on experience with another statically compiled language (e.g., Golang, Rust, C++).
• Experience with gRPC and Google Protocol Buffers.
• Experience with caching technologies (e.g., Redis).
• Experience with infrastructure as code software (e.g., Terraform).
• Certified Kubernetes and public cloud knowledge (e.g., CKAD, AWS certifications).
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems.
• Knowledge of payments and/or liquidity management.

Job responsibilities

• Produce presentations, analysis and supporting materials for key internal clients including senior management; participate and support ad-hoc special projects and requests as needed
• Develop, consolidate and present insightful and robust qualitative and quantitative financial analysis including annual budget, quarterly/monthly forecast variances
• Create, maintain and review financial models and analyses (both recurring and ad-hoc)
• Conduct "deep dive" analyses on key issues impacting client to determine root cause and propose solutions
• Collaborate with business partners across P&A, lines of business and the firm to ensure the timely, accurate and effective delivery of recurring and ad-hoc initiatives
• Build and maintain strong relationships with key business stakeholders: firm-wide, Functional Finance and lines of business teams

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelors degree in Finance, Economics, or Accounting
• 5+ years of relevant FP&A experience
• Sound judgment, professional maturity and personal integrity, strong work ethic, proactive and results-oriented, and ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously. Must be comfortable with frequently changing priorities
• The ability to comprehend and clearly communicate complex concepts and maintain composure in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Excellent organizational, management, and both verbal and written communication skills
• Strong quantitative, analytical, and problem solving skills
• Strong technical and analytical skills, including Excel, PowerPoint, Essbase, Visual Basic and macros
• Ability to navigate multiple data sets and synthesize into cohesive presentation and recommendations

• Detail oriented individual with the ability to work well under pressure, handling multiple projects and initiatives simultaneously. Self-starter who is able to work in a fast paced, results driven environment

• Team oriented, inquisitive, critical thinker who anticipates questions from internal clients and senior management
• Ability to build strong partnerships with colleagues, desire to learn quickly, be flexible and think strategically

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• CFA, CPA, MBA a plus
  

As a Talent Program Lead in the Client Onboarding & Service Solution Center, you will lead our best-in-class Customer Service Apprenticeship program, delivering future talent into a customer-focused organization. You will partner with internal and external stakeholders, support apprentices throughout their journey, and drive people-related objectives across the global Client Onboarding & Service Solution Center. You will help us build strong relationships with schools, colleges, and industry forums, ensuring an inclusive and impactful talent pipeline.

Job Responsibilities:

• Partner with the Emerging Talent team to lead a two-year Customer Service Apprenticeship program focused on customer service and French bilingual capabilities.
• Ensure an exceptional candidate experience throughout the application and assessment process.
• Maintain strong relationships with campus and experienced recruiting teams to leverage best practices.
• Build relationships with local schools and colleges, especially those with French language skills, and represent the firm at events.
• Execute all safeguarding requirements for the employment of minors.
• Provide oversight, mentorship, and support for individual apprentices during their program.
• Lead people-related program opportunities within the global COS Solution Center, including managing industry relationships.
• Partner with regional stakeholder groups to provide business and talent program information in wider forums and materials.
• Own the monthly Business Unit Review and contribute to reporting and communications.

• Previous program management experience.
• Business recruiting experience with a strong focus on candidate experience and diversity.
• High standards and attention to detail, with strong planning, organization, and time management skills.
• Consultative and decisive partner to clients; excellent relationship management skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, comfortable presenting to large groups.
• Passion for working with and assessing school and college students.
• Ability to work with large data sets to identify trends and provide regular reporting to senior stakeholders.

• Ability to perform data analyses and visualizations using tools such as MS Excel, Alteryx, or Tableau.
• Previous experience with talent programs or business management activities.