Senior Lead Architect-Enterprise Architecture
JPMC Candidate Experience page · Posted Apr 6, 2026
- Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
- On-site
- Full-time · Lead
- 5+ years
Shape how platforms are designed and built, setting clear architecture direction to improve reliability, speed, and long-term maintainability in financial services.
Compensation
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.
Responsibilities
- Define target and transitional architectures and set practical guardrails for resiliency across application, data, and integration layers
- Lead solution design from concept to production, creating ADRs, HLDs, and LLDs that align to enterprise reference architectures and controls
- Run or contribute to design councils, perform architecture/design reviews, and manage exceptions and technical risk with clear remediation plans
- Guide implementation details (service boundaries, API contracts, data models, error handling, idempotency, failure modes, back-pressure)
- Ensure designs include HA/DR, observability (logs/metrics/traces), and capacity/performance considerations, and are ready for chaos and DR testing
Requirements
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts
- Nice to have: AI/ML for operations automation
- Nice to have: Anomaly/outlier detection
- Nice to have: Predictive capacity
- Nice to have: Root-cause hints