Senior Lead Architect - Payments

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As a Lead Architect at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer & Community Banking , you are an integral part of a team that works to develop high-quality architecture solutions for various software applications on modern cloud-based technologies. 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 

• Engages technical teams and business stakeholders to discuss and propose technical approaches to meet current and future needs
• Defines the technical target state of their product and drives achievement of the strategy
• Participates in architecture governance bodies
• Evaluates recommendations and provides feedback on new technologies
• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Proficiency in development of end-to-end architecture for small business (SMB) payment systems using Spring boot/Java micro services, event driven architecture and domain driven design concepts.
• Track record of migrating legacy payment platforms to cloud native environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP) with the intent to enhance performance, security, resilience and reduce cost.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with product managers, developers, and business stakeholders to align architectural decisions with business objectives and customer needs.
• Proven ability in implementing solutions that handle high transaction volumes, low latency, and seamless integration with third party payment providers.
• Well versed with RESTful API standards and messaging standards along with the ability to perform the architecture-to-code review working with the technology teams
• Experience designing payments systems adhering to security standards such as PCI DSS and ensure compliance with regulatory requirement.