- Company Name
- JPMorganChase
- Job Title
- Lead Architect - Market Expansion Solution Architect
- Job Description
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**Job Title:** Lead Architect – Market Expansion Solution Architect
**Role Summary:**
Drive technical strategy and architecture for global digital commerce initiatives, guiding end‑to‑end solution design, modernization, and integration across a large payments organization. Serve as the trusted advisor for business and technology stakeholders, ensuring alignment with architectural standards, governance, and business goals.
**Expectations:**
- Lead cross‑functional teams through complex, high‑impact projects, delivering scalable and low‑latency distributed systems.
- Translate business requirements into pragmatic, architecture‑ready designs and roadmaps with minimal oversight.
- Foster collaboration across global teams, vendors, and product stakeholders to achieve agility and innovation.
**Key Responsibilities:**
- Engage business and technical stakeholders to propose and refine architecture solutions.
- Build and maintain trust with decision‑makers, providing thought leadership and mentoring.
- Identify modernization opportunities, evaluate technology options, and recommend best paths to market.
- Provide creative software design, troubleshooting, and solutions that exceed routine approaches.
- Automate remediation of recurring issues to improve operational stability.
- Lead vendor evaluation and assessment sessions, ensuring compatibility with existing systems.
- Participate in architecture governance, enforce standards, policies, and documentation.
- Promote inclusive decision‑making across business, operations, and technology functions.
- Communicate complex technical concepts to both business and technical audiences.
- Support product and solution delivery, ensuring alignment with strategy and target state.
**Required Skills:**
- Advanced software engineering expertise, including distributed systems, low‑latency architecture, and UI/back‑end integration.
- Proficiency in cloud, AI/ML, mobile, and related technology domains.
- Experience in financial services technology, with a focus on payments or trading systems.
- Strong domain modeling, business process, and client‑experience understanding.
- Demonstrated strategic thinking, business‑process alignment, and roadmap development.
- Effective communication, presentation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Proven ability to work across time zones in globally diverse, cross‑functional teams.
- Knowledge of networking, security, and risk compliance frameworks.
- Hands‑on experience with Java/JVM languages, Kubernetes, and infrastructure‑as‑code.
- Familiarity with NoSQL, distributed caching, RDBMS, messaging, and streaming data technologies.
**Required Education & Certifications:**
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.
- Formal training or certification in software engineering principles and architectural best practices.
- Continuous professional development in emerging technologies and architecture methodologies.
Bournemouth, United kingdom
On site
Senior
23-11-2025