Solution Architect

Job Description

As a member of our Software Engineering Group you will dive head-first into creating innovative solutions that advance businesses and careers. You’ll join an inspiring and curious team of technologists dedicated to improving the design, analytics, development, coding, testing and application programming that goes into creating high quality software and new products. You’ll be tasked with keeping the team and other key stakeholders up to speed on the progress of what’s being developed. Coming in with an understanding of the importance of end-to-end software development-such as Agile frameworks-is key. And best of all, you’ll be working with and sharing ideas, information and innovation with our global team of technologists from all over the world.

Our Corporate Technology team relies on smart, driven people like you to develop applications and provide tech support for all our corporate functions across our network. Your efforts will touch lives all over the financial spectrum and across all our divisions: Global Finance, Corporate Treasury, Risk Management, Human Resources, Compliance, Legal, and within the Corporate Administrative Office. You’ll be part of a team specifically built to meet and exceed our evolving technology needs, as well as our technology controls agenda.

As a Technology Lead/Solution Architect you will be responsible to define the technology strategy and technical stack in compliance with the direction defined by CT architecture team. Architecturally significant technology decisions will need to be presented to management and central architecture teams for approval and for negotiated decisions. You will need to provide architectural and technical guidance to development teams in the US, UK and India.

Responsibilities:

Help teams on the technical design and development of complex application systems using existing and emerging technology platforms.

• Help establish modern engineering best practices across the organization.
• Establish design patterns for micro services/cloud implementations and provide architecture and implementation guidance.
• Help align with firm data management standards and ensure applications within the portfolio are in line with those standards.
• Provide architectural guidance and implementation support for the application teams across the portfolio.
• Communicating pros and cons of your architectural decisions to the technology team and senior management.
• Quickly come up to speed with the firm and LOB Control Procedures for application development and deployment.
• Provide guidance to technology teams related to Control Procedures that are followed to ensure a smooth delivery of the application to production.

This role requires a wide variety of strengths and capabilities, including:

• Strong expertise with Tomcat, Java8, Spring MVC, PL/SQL and Oracle based applications running on VSI/PSI or Cloud platform.
• Strong experience in Java frameworks such as Spring, Hibernate, MyBatis.
• Prior experience working with cloud technologies such as Cloud Foundry or AWS is a must.
• Prior experience in container platforms such as Docker/Kubernetes is a plus.
• Prior experience in UI Frameworks such as React JS or Angular JS is a plus.
• Experience with Test Driven Development, XP, User Centric Design is a plus.
• Experience with Micro services architecture pattern, Domain Driven design is a plus.
• Experience with Data management standards such data governance/data quality is a plus.
• Experience with
• Experience with Continuous Integration tools like Jenkins.
• Experience of code versioning tools, such as GIT, SVN.
• Experience with search engines like Elastic Search is a plus.
• Strong knowledge of design patterns and industry standards.
• Strong expertise working with geographically dispersed teams and demonstrated ability to deliver results. Soft Skills
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to lead/manage discussions with varied levels of management and engineers.
• Excellent influence, negotiation and presentation skills.

When you work at JPMorgan Chase & Company, you're not just working at a global financial institution. You're an integral part of one of the world's biggest tech companies. In 14 technology hubs worldwide, our team of 40,000 technologists design, build and deploy everything from enterprise technology initiatives to big data and mobile solutions, as well as innovations in electronic payments, cybersecurity, machine learning, and cloud development. Our $9.5B+ annual investment in technology enables us to hire people to create innovative solutions that will not only transform the financial services industry, but also change the world. At JPMorgan Chase & Company we value the unique skills of every employee, and we're building a technology organization that thrives on diversity. We encourage professional growth and career development, and offer competitive benefits and compensation. If you're looking to build your career as part of a global technology team tackling big challenges that impact the lives of people and companies around the world, we want to meet you.