Reporting into the Chief Architect for Card Services Technology, the Consumer Card Architecture Director is a principle leadership role in the architecture organization responsible for leading all other architects in Consumer Card through developing technology roadmaps and plans for key business strategies.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage a team of Enterprise Software Architects bringing together a holistic view of strategy and execution across the entirety of Consumer Card.
• Decompose business charters and strategies into well defined architecture guidance for software development and infrastructure teams
• Work with IT and business units to create investable and executable technical roadmaps
• Work with business stakeholders and gain support for critical technology investment decisions
• Act as a key advisor to senior IT and business leadership
• Scope and size technology investments
• Evaluate technologies, vendor solutions and applications
• Evangelize architecture best practices across JPMC in support of the firm-wide technology strategies
• Manage the application portfolio lifecycle, and champion IT assets that can be leveraged across lines of business

Transferable Skills:

• Ability to work in a fast paced environment
• Ability to multi-task
• Ability to work at a high level with little detail.
• Good communication skills

The points below have been carefully considered as being essential for the role. Your background must accurately reflect all of these, with or without a reasonable accommodation, for your application to be considered.

Basic Qualifications:

• 15+ years of IT experience
• Minimum of 5 years of work experience as an software architect responsible for designing large complex IT solutions
• Minimum of 5 years experience in collaborating directly with business partners to ensure technical solutions deliver on business objectives
• Demonstrated ability to leverage enterprise architecture principles to develop business strategies into investable technical roadmaps
• Very strong presentation and communication skills with experience providing communication to C level executives

Preferred Skills:

• Financial services experience with a focus on Credit Card banking
• Banking knowledge and direct exposure to credit card processing business principals
• Experience in an Agile delivery model
• Experience with migrating applications to a Public or Private cloud infrastructure
• Prior consulting experience