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Senior Lead Architect - Google Cloud Platform
LONDON, LONDON, United Kingdom
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Job Information
* Job Identification: 210674865
* Job Category: Architecture
* Business Unit: Corporate Sector
* Posting Date: 13/10/2025, 11:57
* Locations: 4 John Carpenter St, London, Greater London, EC4Y 0JP, GB; Chaseside - Hampshire Building, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH7 7DA, GB; 315 Argyle Street, Glasgow, Glasgow City, G2 8AT, GB
* Job Schedule: Full time
Job Description
As a Senior Lead Architect at JPMorgan Chase within the Cloud Foundation Services (CFS) team, you specialize in the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and play a crucial role in developing high‑quality architecture solutions for various software applications and platform products. You promote significant business impact and help shape the target‑state architecture through your expertise in public cloud architecture domains. In CFS, our goal is to accelerate our evolution into a cloud software‑based infrastructure by creating the policies, tools, and processes that our development teams can leverage. CFS delivers innovative, high‑quality, cost‑effective, fit‑for‑purpose cloud infrastructure technology solutions for application partners firm‑wide. You will work as part of a strong, supportive team to create, review, and apply architecture solutions based on our long‑term strategy, while guiding the organization toward a strategic target state.
Job Responsibilities
* Serve as a function‑wide subject matter expert on the Google Cloud Platform
* Provide feedback and propose improvements to architecture governance practices
* Guide the evaluation of current technology and lead the evaluation of new technologies using existing standards and frameworks
* Regularly provide technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
* Drive decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
* Actively contribute to the engineering community as an advocate of firm‑wide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
* Influence peers and project decision‑makers to consider the use and application of leading‑edge technologies
Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills
* Formal training or certification on Google Cloud Platform concepts and proficient advanced experience
* Advanced knowledge of tools, patterns and best practices for building and operating applications on Google Cloud Platform
* Drive the Google Cloud Platform design, architecture, and technical understanding across Infrastructure Platforms by providing technical direction and design thought leadership
* Engage with peer architects and technologists to function as a technical advisor on Google Cloud services and architectural patterns
* Work with LOB teams to influence the adoption of Google Cloud in a safe, secure, resilient, and scalable manner
* Hands‑on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability in Google Cloud
* Experience working in a regulated environment (financial, healthcare, gov, etc.)
* Multi‑CSP experience; integrating cross‑cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) services such as multi‑cloud networking, IAM federation, multi‑cloud data platforms and content delivery, or cross‑cloud migrations (private to public, public to alternate CSP)
* Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
* Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to select or recommend the best solutions for the future state architecture
Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills
* Demonstrates influencing skills to foster a culture of change, excellence, and innovation, constructively challenging the status quo and driving prudent implementation.
* Builds effective partnerships by collaborating with clients, business leaders, and application architects to define technology and architecture roadmaps.
* Establishes and communicates a clear technology vision, securing organizational support through presentations, publications, workshops, and interpersonal communication.
* Participates in major technical decisions by developing proposals that evaluate alternatives and business cases, and works across departments to gain stakeholder consensus.
* Maintains strong expertise in multi‑cloud technical environments and serves as a leader, consultant, mentor, and tutor in technical architecture for Infrastructure Platforms staff.
* Exhibits excellent interpersonal and communication skills, negotiating compromises, demonstrating diplomacy in sensitive situations, and interacting effectively with peers and management across diverse cultures and fast‑paced environments.
* Applies mastery of architecture, design, business processes, and industry‑wide cloud technology strategies and best practices.
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. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
About The Team
Our Global Technology Infrastructure group is a team of innovators who love technology as much as you do. Together, you’ll use a disciplined, innovative and a business focused approach to develop a wide variety of high‑quality products and solutions. You’ll work in a stable, resilient and secure operating environment where you—and the products you deliver—will thrive.
High Risk Roles (HRR)
High Risk Roles (HRR) are sensitive roles within the technology organization that require high assurance of the integrity of staff by virtue of 1) sensitive cybersecurity and technology functions they perform within systems or 2) information they receive regarding sensitive cybersecurity or technology matters. Users in these roles are subject to enhanced pre‑hire screening which includes both criminal and credit background checks (as allowed by law). The enhanced screening will need to be successfully completed prior to commencing employment or assignment.
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