Lead Architect - Enterprise Cloud Platform on AWS

high-quality architecture solutions for the Atlas enterprise cloud platform. You drive significant business impact and help shape the target state architecture through your capabilities in multiple architecture domains.

Job responsibilities

• Guide architectural decisions for the enterprise cloud platform and advise tenant applications, particularly for AWS

• Work across partner teams and lines of business to make the platform the best possible cloud platform in financial services.

• Evaluate and assess new AWS cloud technologies in the light of Atlas initiatives to ensure effective integration and adoption by business lines of business.

• Provides feedback and proposes improvements to architecture governance practices

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors

• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others

• Drives decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes

• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in the cloud platform and AWS

• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle

• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies

• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Awareness of architecture governance and tooling valuable

• 3+ years of commercial cloud native software experience, ideally on AWS.

• At least AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.

• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability

• Strong coding skills in Python, Java or Golang.

• Advanced knowledge of software architecture, applications, and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge of cloud native principles

• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight

• Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to select or recommend the best solutions for the future state architecture

• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

• Comfortable working across functional teams from different lines of business from engineers, architects to product managers and potentially remote.

• Comfortable authoring technical documentation covering design and architecture content.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• AWS Solution Architect or Developer certifications or higher professional certification valuable

• Ideally familiarity and experience with C4 and UML modelling tools

• Good experience with Kubernetes, using CLI, developing and deploying applications and leveraging service mesh technologies.

• Comfortable with common identity and access based standards including SAML and OIDC and approaches including ABAC.

ABOUT US

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

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.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.