Lead Architect - Modernization (Java, AWS)

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As a Lead Architect at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer and 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
 Partners / Collaborates with application development teams to ensure efficient, secure, scalable, stable design and code
 Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability and performance 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.
 Advanced in one or more programming language(s) like Java, Python
 Demonstrated proficiency in building Microservices on cloud / distributed environments
 Experience in Architecting & building highly scalable, fault tolerant, distributed system.
 Experience in designing and building batch and streaming pipelines to process data
 Experience in UI/UX Architecture  Frontend application Design using React or Angular
 Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
 Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle including automated end to end and performance testing.
 Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
 Practical cloud native experience, preferably AWS
 Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to recommend the best solutions for the future state architecture

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
 Experience in modeling languages like UML or C4 model and knowledge of EA frameworks like TOGAF is preferable
 AWS Certification preferred
 Mobile Native Design and Architecture experience is preferred  iOS and Android,