Lead Architect - Mobile application

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As a Lead Architect at JPMorgan Chase within Consumer & Community Banking, you design and deliver robust, cloud-based architecture solutions across diverse technical domains—including Cyber, Security, Fraud, Risk, and Customer Identity & Access Management (CIAM). Your role involves aligning technology strategies with business objectives, collaborating with stakeholders, fostering innovation, and driving technology roadmaps to improve user experience and support long-term strategic planning.

Job responsibilities

• Develop, communicate, and manage the Technology Roadmap
• Stay informed on security standards, authentication protocols, and products
• Lead Special Initiatives as directed by Senior Management
• 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
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability 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 
• Minimum of multiple past experiences in leading a team to architecture implementation of program, platform, and/or domain changes into production
• Ability to personally architect and drive adoption of solutions and platforms into production
• Ability to work independently across multiple initiatives simultaneously and with multiple design and delivery partners including vendors 
• Strong written and verbal communication skills especially in communicating and influencing senior Business and Technology management 
• Strong understanding of project management methodologies and tools including experience with agile delivery 
• Strong skills in internet technology, information architecture, system design and practical cloud native experience
• Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to recommend the best solutions for the future state architecture and experience in risk based authentication and step up protective measures
• Experience in application security, e.g. OAuth, OIDC, FIDO, multi-factor authentication, TLS, securing hybrid native and web apps in mobile platforms
• Evaluate and recommend AI-driven identity management technologies and tools to improve system performance and security.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to development teams on identity management and AI best practices.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Fundamental experience in defensive security constructs, including digital signatures, digital certificates, PKI, firewalls, and secure coding practices.
• Strong knowledge of open standards, web technologies, and web application servers.
• Familiarity with AI technologies, frameworks, and mobile application vulnerability discovery, including rooting or jail-breaking iOS and Android devices.
• Solid understanding of Data Security and Network Security, focusing on OSI reference model Layer 2 through Layer 7.
• Deep understanding of information security and risk management challenges, including mitigation and remediation strategies.
• Expertise in OWASP top 10 security issues for web and mobile, with knowledge of remediation patterns, threat modeling, and vulnerability assessment.
• Experience with Zero Trust Model, privileged session management, cloud security, and relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISA, and CISM.