Sr Lead Architect - Platform Technical Discovery Lead

As a Senior Lead Architect / Platform Technical Discovery Lead at JPMorganChase within the Cloud Foundations Product Management organisation, you are an integral part of a team that works to shape and validate early-stage multi-cloud platform demand, ensuring technical feasibility, platform coherence, and investment-readiness before opportunities enter architecture and engineering engagement. You drive significant business impact and help shape the target state architecture through your capabilities in multiple architecture domains., * Represents a product family in technical governance bodies and proposes improvements to architecture governance practices

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Partners with the Product/Customer Discovery Lead to provide technical depth at the point of demand intake, assessing feasibility and shaping early solution options before architecture engagement
• Owns platform technical integrity at the front door - ensuring solution options are consistent with platform architecture principles and do not introduce fragmentation, technical debt, or risk across domains
• Jointly owns ROM estimation with the Customer Discovery Lead, producing sizing ranges with confidence levels to support investment decisions
• Prepares opportunities for architecture and engineering engagement, ensuring conversations are focused and requirements are well understood
• Leverages enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate architecture analysis and decisioning across the product family, with human-in-the-loop validation and appropriate handling of sensitive data.
• Guides evaluation of current and new technologies using existing standards and frameworks, influencing peers and decision-makers to adopt leading-edge solutions where appropriate
• Drives decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes. Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert and contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide SDLC frameworks and practices
• Establishes reuse-first AI-enabled engineering patterns and governance across SDLC/toolchain practices, ensuring traceability/auditability, resiliency, and security controls.

• Formal training or certification on architecture concepts and advanced applied experience Hands-on practical experience delivering platform or infrastructure technical assessments, solution shaping, and feasibility analysis in a complex multi-cloud environment

• Advanced in one or more programming language(s) and deep expertise in software architecture, applications, and technical processes within one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)

• Demonstrated experience applying enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment in architecture and engineering workflows with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity.

• Ability to evaluate and integrate AI-enabled capabilities into enterprise-grade architectures while meeting resiliency, security, and auditability requirements.

• 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

• Strong judgment and communication skills to influence technical direction across teams

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., 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.