Principal Architect (Director) - Wealth Management

Aumni

Aumni

IT, Accounting & Finance
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posted on Jul 18, 2024

Job Description

Overview

J. P. Morgan Chase Asset & Wealth Management - Global Private Bank Technology is expanding the Line of Business Architecture team to support accelerated growth of a highly successful Wealth Management business and to collaborate with senior leaders, business and technology partners to design state-of-the-art platforms and products on which to scale and grow. The Wealth Management - Global Private Bank Architecture function defines the target state architecture across all asset-classes and business capabilities working closely with the embedded Domain and Solution architects, ensuring consistent alignment to business, technology, data and Asset & Wealth Management strategic goals. We are looking for an experienced Senior Architect with strong Private Bank and Domain Architecture expertise to join this function, extend the team and promote thought leadership across a variety of major cross-cutting initiatives. This role will be based in Bengaluru/Mumbai, India, reflecting the importance of having a close working relationship with business and technology partners in the region.

Job Responsibilities:

1. Architecture Leadership

  • Advises and leads on strategy and development of multiple products, applications, and technologies across the Wealth Management portfolio.
  • Translates highly complex technical issues, trends, and approaches to leadership to drive the firm’s innovation and enable leaders to make strategic, well-informed decisions about target state architecture.
  • Develop and implement architecture principles, strategies and guidelines.
  • Lead the design and development of complex systems and solutions.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior architects and development teams.
  • Establishes and leads an architecture governance body.
  • Champions the firm’s culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

2. Solution Design

  • Design scalable, secure and efficient software architectures
  • Evaluate new technologies and tools to drive innovation and improve existing systems.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them to technical solutions.

3. Technical Expertise

  • Possess deep expertise in multiple technology domains and technologies such as
    • Cloud computing (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
    • Compute/Container/Orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS, Lambda/Serverless etc.)
    • Microservices & multi-tier architectures
    • DevOps/CI/CD (GIT/Bitbucket, Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, Sonar)
    • Java (Core & EE, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Cloud) & Python
    • RDBMS systems and NoSQL, Storage Technologies (S3, EBS etc.)
    • API – GraphQL, REST, API Gateway
    • Integration and events/messaging technologies (Kafka, RabbitmQ, SNS, SQS)
    • Caching Solutions such as Elasticache/Redis, Hazelcast, EHCache
    • Observability and monitoring (Dynatrace, Cloud Watch, Grafana, Splunk, Datadog)
  • Stay updated on industry trends and best practices to ensure architecture alignment with business goals

4. Collaboration

  • Work closely with cross-functional teams including developers, engineers, product managers and business stakeholders.
  • Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to non-technical audience.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

  • Formal training or certification on Wealth Management technology concepts and 10+ years applied experience
  • Wealth Management technology experience working across Wealth Planning & Advice, Investing, Lending, Banking with cross-asset experience including Fixed Income, Equities, and Alternatives (preferred)
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
  • 10+ years applied experience with strong proficiency in software development methodologies, architecture frameworks, design patterns, testing and operational stability
  • Excellent leadership, communication and problem-solving skills
  • Experience establishing vibrant engineering communities and guilds
  • Expertise in one or more programming language(s), applications, and architecture disciplines
  • Demonstrated prior experience influencing across functions and teams to deliver modern architecture
  • Extensive practical cloud native experience
  • Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to recommend the best technology solutions and approaches to achieve the future state architecture
  • Knowledge of AI/ML technologies and architecture is a major plus

Preferred Qualifications

  • Wealth Management technology experience working across Wealth Planning & Advice, Investing, Lending, Banking with cross-asset experience including Fixed Income, Equities, and Alternatives (preferred)
  • Knowledge of AI/ML technologies and architecture is a major plus
  • Hands on experience working at code level (preferred)