JPMorgan Sr Lead Software Engineer - Solution Architect 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

130276705

Job responsibilities

• Solves complex problems by designing or modifying technology architecture and testing the integration of software in these designs for correct functionality.
• Collaborate with product, solution architects, business analysts and developers to turn business requirements into solution designs that meet the business needs while aligning with our technical strategy for each application/product
• Build architectural artifacts, like system diagrams, design specifications, and technical documentation, to communicate design decisions and support implementation.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams, ensuring adherence to architectural standards and best practices.
• Facilitate communication, collaboration between cross-functional teams, including developers, testers, and project managers in order to ensure alignment.
• Lead Architecture Capability and Manage Architecture within engineering team.
• Create strategy and vision for Account Services & products for payments landscape across cloud and on prem platforms
• Provide consultancy for new initiative, to assist in the definition of business solutions or technical data strategies aligned to Payments
• Produce design artefacts such as component landscapes, flow diagrams, word documents, confluence pages to help articulate key design decisions
• Produce Strategy and Visions & High Level End to End Design documents
• Provide cost and effort estimates for data initiatives within Payments and look for innovative data solutions as per Payment core architecture
• Work with Payment architects and CTOs in the definition of product strategy and roadmaps
• Present complex data problems and solutions, both written and verbal, in commercial, business and technical language
• Establish clear non-functional requirements (eg: capacity, availability response times etc). Understand technical constraints of the environment and architecture, building this into the architecture
• Review component designs to ensure compatibility with the architecture
• Review test strategies to guarantee the quality of the delivered system and assist in the diagnosis of system problems encountered during end to end Integrated Testing
• Ensure that technical quality standards are met, taking remedial action where there are quality shortfalls
• Ensure that application monitoring and alerting is included in all system design
• Complete technically complex assignment work to budget, time and quality requirements
• Document all work in accordance with agreed standards, and with re-use in mind
• Design data models as required as per data principles with sound knowledge of Payment domain
• Manage senior stakeholder communication and relationship management, up to Director leve
• Actively participating in our agile delivery approach, engaging in sprint planning, backlog refinement and daily scrums as required
• Engage with Payments architecture community, bringing new ideas and creative solutions to our business

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on technical design and architecture concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Strong technical knowledge with very good broad understanding of a wide variety of technologies including emerging technologies and design patterns - Java, Microservices, Reactive programming, Messaging, AWS, Stability & Resiliency, Cost optimization, Caching & Replication strategy etc
• Strong stakeholder management - Able to challenge stakeholders creatively and professionally to create solutions which meet all of the above criteria but which are not necessarily obvious responses to pre-defined requests
• Experience with IT Architecture - Familiar with integration and implementation issues and their architectural implications
• Strong understanding of best practice architectural and design methods with proven innovative and leading edge thinking (e.g. Domain Driven Architecture, building for resilience, scalability, performance, etc...)
• Solution Development - Able to create fit for purpose technology solutions which address the combined challenges of: meeting business need, deliverable within reasonable constraints, correspond to organizational strategic guidance
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments
• Ability to define multiple solution options to business problems
• Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies
• Strong understanding of network and data centre architecture, as well as application development methodologies
• Previous experience of technology transformation projects
• Qualification – engineering graduate (B.E. or B. Tech)