JPMorgan Lead Architect 

United Kingdom, Scotland 

555040172

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 architecture concepts and advanced applied experience
• Proficiency in Solutions architecture and Platform architecture
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in Python programming. Java is also acceptable.
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Demonstrated experience with AI App / GenAI App Builder as an AI Practitioner
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Proficient knowledge in AWS with accompanying AWS certification
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
• Practical cloud native experience
• Advanced knowledge of one or more software, applications, and architecture disciplines
• Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to recommend the best solutions for the future state architecture

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Theoretical knowledge or hand-on experience with Model building / ML Engineering including finetuning of Large Language Models (LLM’s) is highly preferable
• Knowledge of Azure