Lead Architect - Asset Management
at J.P. Morgan
Posted 17 days ago
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Senior technical architect role within Asset Management Technology responsible for defining target architecture, roadmaps, and pragmatic technical approaches across trading, portfolio, and market data domains. You will design integrations, data models and contracts, lead process re-engineering, and drive automation, resiliency and CI/CD initiatives. The role partners with business and engineering, evaluates emerging technologies and vendors, and applies domain expertise across order/execution lifecycles, portfolio management, risk, performance and regulatory needs. Requires strong software engineering experience, AWS/cloud skills, and proven leadership in delivering measurable process improvements.
- Compensation
- Not specified
- City
- Jersey City
- Country
- United States
Currency: Not specified
Full Job Description
Location: Jersey City, NJ, United States
A career with us is a journey, not a destination. This could be the next best step in your technical career. Join us.
As a Lead Architect at JPMorgan Chase within the Asset Management Technology organization. You’ll drive solutions across multiple business functions with a focus on business processes, sound systems & data design, and domain expertise in trading, investments, and/or markets. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical architecture solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of project goals.
Job responsibilities
- Partners with business and engineering to shape pragmatic technical approaches
- Defines target architecture and roadmaps; contribute to architecture governance
- Evaluates emerging technologies and guide adoption
- Improves reliability through automation and elimination of recurring issues
- Leads vendor and internal design evaluations to ensure fit and quality
- Leads front‑to‑back process re‑engineering to simplify, automate, and strengthen controls; set clear KPIs and outcomes
- Sets practical data design for applications and integrations (data models and contracts); promote data quality and usability
- Designs integrations for trade, portfolio, and market data flows
- Applies domain knowledge across order/execution lifecycles, portfolio management, risk, performance, and regulatory needs
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
- Ability to negotiate, influence, and probe deeply
- Hands‑on experience in system design, application development, testing, and operations
- Advanced in one or more programming languages; AWS cloud experience
- Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery; strong SDLC and agile practices
- Advanced understanding of CI/CD, resiliency, and security
- Demonstrated proficiency in a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, AI/ML, mobile)
- In‑depth knowledge of financial services and enterprise IT
- Ability to assess current and emerging technologies to recommend future‑state solutions
- Proven experience leading process re‑engineering or continuous improvement with measurable outcomes
- Strong data design fundamentals (models, APIs, events) and data quality awareness
- Practical knowledge of trading, investments, and markets across asset classes and the trade lifecycle
- Understanding of Asset Management business and sub-capabilities
- Ability to independently conduct meetings with senior stakeholders
- Experience with OMS/EMS, portfolio, performance, risk, and/or compliance systems
- Experience defining target operating models and success metrics
