Technology CDAO - Solution Architect | Glasgow, UK

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

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Technology CDAO - Solution Architect

JPMorgan Chase & Co. Glasgow, United Kingdom Apply now Posted 17 days ago Permanent Competitive

Job Description

If you are excited about shaping the future of technology and driving significant business impact in financial services, we are looking for people just like you. Join our team and help us develop game-changing, high-quality solutions.

As a Sr Solutions Architect at JPMorgan Chase within the Technology Chief Data Office (CDO), you are responsible for designing and overseeing the implementation of our Technical Data Lakehouse and developing software for our supporting services that meet both technical and business requirements. You will provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams, ensuring adherence to best practices in software development and architecture. Collaborating closely with stakeholders, you will translate business needs into technical specifications and evaluate tools and technologies to recommend optimal solutions. The architect ensures system scalability, performance, and security, while also managing the integration of new systems with existing infrastructure. You will also create and maintain appropriate documentation, address technical issues, and stay updated with industry trends to drive innovation and continuous improvement in software solutions.

Job responsibilities

• Provides feedback and proposes improvements to architecture governance practices
• Guides evaluation of current technology and leads evaluation of new technologies using existing standards and frameworks
• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Creates complex and scalable coding solutions using appropriate software design frameworks
• Drives decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s), applications, and architecture
• Advanced knowledge of software architecture, applications, and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Exposure to cloud technologies (AWS or GCP) via hands-on experience or certification
• Hands-on experience in data lake or data warehouse and related technologies (e.g. Spark, ETL, Databricks).

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Hands-on exposure to metadata process & technology as well as a background in data management and data quality
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability

About Us

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.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

About the Team

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.