Principal Architect

Key Skills

Java Programming, IT, Python Programming, DevOps, Git, Aartificial intelligence, Machine learning techniques, Leadership Skill, Docker, Kubernetes-K8s, Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery - CI/CD, Grafana, CSS3, Spring Boot, SaaS, KPIs, Lambda, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Splunk, DataDog, IaaS, PaaS, Bitbucket, Effective communication skills

Job Description

J. P. Morgan Chase Asset & Wealth Management - Global Private Bank Technology is expanding the Line of Business Architecture team to support accelerated growth of a highly successful Wealth Management business and to collaborate with senior leaders, business and technology partners to design state-of-the-art platforms and products on which to scale and grow.

The Wealth Management - Global Private Bank Architecture function defines the target state architecture across all asset-classes and business capabilities working closely with the embedded Domain and Solution architects, ensuring consistent alignment to business, technology, data and AWM strategic goals.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Architect with strong Private Bank and Domain Architecture expertise to join this function, extend the team and drive thought leadership across a variety of major cross-cutting initiatives. This role will be based in Bengaluru/Mumbai, India, reflecting the importance of having a close working relationship with business and technology partners in the region.

As a Senior Principal Architect, you will:

• Establish and Lead the Architecture function for Global Private Bank in India
• Have strong stakeholder, influencing and thought leadership abilities, as an individual contributor and specialist
• Be experienced in modern cloud-based Architectures able to support regional and intra-day processing.
• Bring recent (or current) experience working for another global Asset/Investment or Wealth Management firm and particularly Wealth Planning & Advice, Client Onboarding, Portfolio Management, Trading & Order Management, Client Performance Reporting, Investing, Lending, Banking
• Bring strong industry practices and methods whilst remaining commercial and client value focused
• Have worked on driving adoption of at least one System of Record i.e., Client/Account, Instrument etc.
• Be comfortable facing off to senior stakeholders and leading Architecture Councils/Review Boards/Forums and other working groups.
• From a governance standpoint, bring a proven track-record of defining Current State Architecture, mapping Target/Future State Architecture, the roadmap to get there, coupled with the metrics/KPIs to track progress whilst staying lightweight
• Deep knowledge and experience defining and implementing Functional, Data, Application and Technical architecture
• Innovate by apply AI/ML technologies to Architecture and Engineering

In this role, you will design and develop IT architecture (integrated process, applications, data, and technology) solutions to business problems in alignment with business strategy and group architecture direction and standards. You will perform technical planning, architecture development, and modification of specifications as well as develop specifications for new products/services, applications, and service offerings. This opportunity will also require that you assess the compatibility and integration of products/services proposed as standards in order to ensure an integrated architecture across interdependent technologies.

If you have passion for architecture, and want to lead, learn, have an innovation mindset to transform the way we think about architecture at global scale, then we encourage you to apply!

Responsibilities:

Architecture Leadership

• Advises and leads on strategy and development of multiple products, applications, and technologies across the Wealth Management portfolio.
• Translates highly complex technical issues, trends, and approaches to leadership to drive the firm’s innovation and enable leaders to make strategic, well-informed decisions about target state architecture.
• Develop and implement architecture principles, strategies and guidelines.
• Lead the design and development of complex systems and solutions.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior architects and development teams.
• Establishes and leads an architecture governance body.
• Champions the firm’s culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Solution Design

• Design scalable, secure and efficient software architectures
• Evaluate new technologies and tools to drive innovation and improve existing systems.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them to technical solutions.

Technical Expertise

• Possess deep expertise in multiple technology domains and technologies such as
• Cloud computing (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
• Compute/Container/Orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS, Lambda/Serverless etc.)
• Microservices & multi-tier architectures
• DevOps/CI/CD (GIT/Bitbucket, Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, Sonar)
• Java (Core & EE, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Cloud) & Python
• RDBMS systems and NoSQL, Storage Technologies (S3, EBS etc.)
• API – GraphQL, REST, API Gateway
• Integration and events/messaging technologies (Kafka, RabbitmQ, SNS, SQS)
• Caching Solutions such as Elasticache/Redis, Hazelcast, EHCache
• Observability and monitoring (Dynatrace, Cloud Watch, Grafana, Splunk, Datadog)
• Stay updated on industry trends and best practices to ensure architecture alignment with business goals

Collaboration

• Work closely with cross-functional teams including developers, engineers, product managers and business stakeholders.
• Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to non-technical audience.

Requirements

• Wealth Management technology experience working across Wealth Planning & Advice, Investing, Lending, Banking with cross-asset experience including Fixed Income, Equities, and Alternatives (preferred)
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
• 10+ years applied experience with strong proficiency in software development methodologies, architecture frameworks, design patterns, testing and operational stability
• Excellent leadership, communication and problem-solving skills
• Experience establishing vibrant engineering communities and guilds
• Expertise in one or more programming language(s), applications, and architecture disciplines
• Demonstrated prior experience influencing across functions and teams to deliver modern architecture
• Extensive practical cloud native experience
• Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to recommend the best technology solutions and approaches to achieve the future state architecture
• Hands on experience working at code level (preferred)
• Knowledge of AI/ML technologies and architecture is a major plus

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.