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Sr Lead Architect, Payments Technology

JPMorgan Chase
Palo Alto, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 11/15/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/15/2026

If you are excited about shaping the future of technology and driving significant business impact in financial services, we are looking for people just like you. Join our team and help us develop game-changing, high-quality solutions.

As a Senior Lead Architect at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Investment Banking Payments Technology team, you play a crucial role in developing high-quality architecture solutions for a range of software applications and platform products. Your expertise across multiple architecture domains allows you to promote significant business impact and contribute to shaping the target state architecture.

As a Sr Lead Architect, you will lead the transformation and modernization of payments platforms, working alongside passionate and dedicated teams at the intersection of technology and business strategy. You will collaborate with internal teams and business leaders to develop strategically sound Target State Architectures that address current business needs and are adaptable for future requirements.

Job responsibilities

  • Design and develop scalable, high-performance Java-based cloud-native applications
  • Architect solutions for processing large data volumes with low latency and high throughput
  • Create technical specifications and detailed architecture blueprints for distributed systems
  • Lead technical decisions for enterprise-scale Java applications
  • Establish coding standards, best practices, and development methodologies
  • Mentor junior developers and provide technical guidance to cross-functional teams
  • Evaluate and recommend appropriate technologies and frameworks
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to transform business requirements into optimal technical solutions
  • Perform code reviews, ensure quality of deliverables, troubleshoot complex production issues in distributed environments

     

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5 years applied experience
  • Java development experience with proven expertise in cloud-native application design
  • Strong hands-on coding skills in Java, and open-source frameworks including Spring Boot, Service-mesh, Docker, Kubernetes, among others
  • Extensive experience with distributed computing and designing high-throughput, low-latency systems
  • Demonstrated success processing large data volumes in production environments
  • Expert-level knowledge of microservices architecture, API design, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Experience with event-driven architectures, streaming, and message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
  • Proficiency with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Strong experience with databases (SQL and NoSQL) and data modeling at scale
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders
  • Strong collaboration skills and experience working effectively across cross-functional teams
  • Strong problem-solving abilities and meticulous attention to detail
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
  • Experience in the Payments domain or financial services industry a plus
  • Experience with reactive programming and asynchronous processing models
  • Knowledge of advanced performance tuning and optimization techniques
  • Proficiency with multiple cloud platforms and hybrid cloud architectures
  • Experience with data engineering and big data technologies (Spark, Flink, Hadoop ecosystem)
  • Cloud certification(s) (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Contributions to open-source projects

 

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE ACT: This position is subject to Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act. As such, an employment offer for this position is contingent on JPMorganChase’s review of criminal conviction history, including pretrial diversions or program entries

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