Vice President - Senior Lead Architect

We are hiring a Senior Lead Architect within the Enterprise Architecture (GT Enterprise Architecture) to drive architectural direction for major cross-firm programs at JPMorgan Chase. You will influence one or two multi-year architecture programs and help set the target state architecture, standards, and paved paths that our organizations rely on and that make adoption the easiest choice. This is a strategic individual contributor role with broad scope but not a paper-based role. We expect you to remain hands-on, focus on our hardest technology problems, mediate between organizations that disagree on how to solve these problems, and be a trusted advisor whom leaders – especially other architects – can call when something is critical. Job Responsibilities • • Help d efine architectural direction for major cross-firm programs spanning multiple organizations in JPMorgan Chase. • • Influence firm level architectural initiatives such as resilience, simplification, inventory, entitlements, or agentic development. • • Author reference patterns and narratives focused on emerging and existing technology challenges across the firm. • • Contribute to working groups and standards forums that set the bar for effective governance and help drive firmwide change. • • Mediate between organizations to converge on shared architectural target states and paved paths when localized approaches diverge. • • Stay hands-on and focus on our hardest technology problems including reviewing design and delivering code as needed. • • Influence the decisions of technology leaders across functions and help activate their organizations to adopt and champion architectural direction. • • Align architectural target states, standards, and paved paths with multi-year business strategies, operational constraints, and ongoing technology initiatives. • • Make the case for major technological investments based on architectural recommendations with clearly articulate tradeoffs (e.g., costs, risks, timelines). • Leverages enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate architecture analysis and decisioning across the product family, with human-in-the-loop validation and appropriate handling of sensitive data. Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills • Formal training or certification on architecture concepts and 5+ years applied experience • Deep expertise across two or three technology domains with mastery in at least one. • Experience delivering or driving large-scale architecture transformation programs that span multiple organizations. • Strong visual and written communication . We expect you to write strategic narratives, investment cases, and reference patterns. • Ability to work with minimal oversight, occasional checkpoints with leadership, and ownership of results across multiple horizons. • Working knowledge of financial services, our regulatory expectations , how these shape architectural decisions. • Ability to evaluate and integrate AI-enabled capabilities into enterprise-grade architectures while meeting resiliency, security, and auditability requirements. Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills • • Prior experience as a Lead Architect – or equivalent – at JPMorgan Chase or a comparable institution. • • Demonstrated record of delivering large-scale architectural platforms or programs that other organizations adopt. • • TOGAF, advanced architecture certifications in your technology domains (e.g., CISSP, AWS Certified SA - Pro, CDMP), or comparable credentials. • • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.