Senior Director of Architecture

JOB DESCRIPTION

Acting as a bridge between the business and technical domains, you enjoy taking charge of diverse subject matter to create groundbreaking infrastructure technologies.

As a Senior Director of Infrastructure Architecture at JPMorganChase within the Payments Technology Team in Corporate & Investment Banking Technology, you lead across multiple areas while bridging the gap between business and technical domains to ensure the execution of complex initiatives. Manage cross-functionally to drive the design and implementation of new infrastructure technologies to aid the firm in remaining at the forefront of industry trends, best practices, and technological advances.

The Senior Director of Infrastructure Architecture will be responsible for the up-lift environment to help drive the firms strategy to keep our technology architecture and infrastructure updated with the latest technologies. This role will help modernize Payments Technology infrastructure supporting the broader firmwide AI adoption strategies and cloud journey designing and architecting resilient, scalable, enterprise infrastructure solutions.

Job responsibilities

• Leads multiple infrastructure architecture process implementations across departments to achieve firmwide objectives
• Manages multiple areas with strategic transactional focus on infrastructure up-lift environment and modernization strategies
• Provides leadership and high-level direction to teams while frequently overseeing employee populations across multiple platforms, divisions, and lines of business
• Bridges the gaps with senior leaders, stakeholders, and executives to drive consensus across competing objectives
• Manages multiple stakeholders, complex projects, and large cross-product collaborations
• Communicates, documents, and presents delivery updates to senior stakeholders providing recommendations to continuously move projects forward
• Manages staffing, budget, and relevant profit and loss
• Leads, inspires, mentors, and coaches junior architects and technologists
• Champions the firm's culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect for team members and prioritizes diverse representation

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on architecture and modernization concepts and 10+ years applied experience. In addition, 5+ year of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise and more broadly across the organization
• Experience developing and leading large and cross-functional teams of infrastructure architects and technologists
• Experience leading complex projects supporting infrastructure design, testing, and operational stability
• Experience hiring, developing, and recognizing talent
• Extensive practical cloud native experience
• Experience transitioning legacy infrastructure and practices to modern infrastructure architectures, platforms, and technologies.
• Experience with Terraform and multi-cloud environments
• Drives complex projects, processes and decisions to simplify and streamline outcomes.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Preferred experience working hands-on with Python, Terraform, and AWS
• Prior experience in Payments Technology (internal or external) strongly preferred

ABOUT US

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

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.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans

ABOUT THE TEAM

J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.