Director of Architecture - Data and AI

We are looking for a leader to take us to the next level as a Director of Architecture at JPMorganChase. Take the reins of Data and AI architecture, and make a meaningful impact at one of the world’s most influential companies.
As a Director of Architecture at JPMorganChase within the Commercial and Investment Bank Operations, you lead a specific area of architecture and drive impact within teams, technologies, and projects across departments. Utilize your in-depth knowledge of architecture applications, processes, and product management to drive multiple complex projects and initiatives while serving as a primary decision maker for your teams and a driver of innovation to achieve the target state architecture goals.
Job Responsibilities
Sets the direction for Data architecture for diverse set of transactional and analytics applications
Drive the direction of AI enablement at the data layer, with innovative use of Search, Vector and Graph data stores
Leads technology and process implementations to achieve functional architecture objectives, conducting governance accountability for coding decisions, control obligations, and measures of success such as cost of ownership, maintainability, and portfolio operations
Leads reuse-first adoption of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate architecture delivery and improve decision quality across the area, with human-in-the-loop validation and appropriate handling of sensitive data
Makes and is accountable for decisions that influence teams’ resources, budget, tactical operations and the execution and implementation of processes and procedures
Establishes governance standards for AI-assisted workflows used in architecture and engineering decision-making, ensuring traceability/auditability and alignment to resiliency, security, and control obligations
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
15+ years of experience in software architecture, with at least 5 years in specifically architecting large scale complex data analytics platforms
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
Formal training or certification on architecture concepts and 10+ years applied experience
Experience developing or leading cross-functional teams of architects and hiring, developing, and recognizing talent
Demonstrated experience leading teams in the safe use of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment for architecture and delivery workflows, including validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity
Ability to evaluate AI-assisted recommendations before adoption and set review/approval expectations that align to resiliency, security, and auditability outcomes
Experience leading a product as a Product Owner or Product Manager
Practical cloud native experience
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
Strong foundation architecting data solutions that require multiple layers of horizontal and vertical processing complex data structures
Distributed systems & cloud literacy: understanding of performance, partitioning, storage formats, compute engines, and cloud services
Experience innovating around AI capabilities in large data platforms, and bringing the best of performance and scale, business-critical applications
Solid experience architecting Semantic Search solutions in structured and semi-structured data environment
Proven track record of delivering complex trading or financial systems in a global banking environment
Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent
This position is subject to Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act. As such, an employment offer for this position is contingent on JPMorgan Chase’s review of criminal conviction history, including pretrial diversions or program entries.