[Remote] Lead Architect - Home Loan Servicing

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. JPMorganChase is a leading financial services firm that helps nearly half of America’s households and small businesses achieve their financial goals. The Lead Architect for Home Loan Servicing will engage with stakeholders to design technology solutions, modernize platform capabilities, and drive technical delivery while ensuring operational stability of software applications.


Responsibilities

  • Engages business and technology stakeholder to discuss and propose design approaches to meet current and future needs of various business initiatives
  • Builds trusted relationships with business and technical decision makers in the organization to provide business and technical thought leadership
  • Identifies opportunities to modernize platform capabilities along with business initiatives
  • Helps define solution for prioritized initiatives and breakdown of technical delivery and helps define the target state of their product and drives achievement of the strategy
  • Participates in architecture governance bodies
  • Evaluates recommendations and provides feedback on business needs, options to get to market
  • 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
  • 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

Skills

  • Formal training or AWS cloud certification on architecture concepts and 5+ years applied experience with strong experience in home loans, a good understanding of mortgage domain
  • Experience with streamlining and designing large scale, mission critical systems and experience with mortgage servicing products in terms of developer experience, techstacks, APIs, frameworks, identity and access management
  • Experience working vendor systems, their integration and legacy techstacks with the ability to understand business requirements, create design, create technical delivery roadmap and technical design
  • Strong technical background with design and delivery experience with software patterns and principles
  • Advanced knowledge of one or more software, applications, and architecture disciplines
  • Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
  • Experience with domain model, understands business process flow, client experience and use cases as well as designing, building and deploying cloud native applications
  • Architecture mindset and experience as a functional architect (business / product)
  • Strong communication and leadership presence
  • Understands business capability, features taxonomy
  • In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
  • Foundational to advanced AI/ML skills, certifications

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health care coverage
  • On-site health and wellness centers
  • A retirement savings plan
  • Backup childcare
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Mental health support
  • Financial coaching

Company Overview

  • With a history tracing its roots to 1799 in New York City, JPMorganChase is one of the world's oldest, largest, and best-known financial institutions—carrying forth the innovative spirit of our heritage firms in global operations across 100 markets. It was founded in 2000, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.jpmorganchase.com/.

  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • JPMorganChase has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2855 in 2025, 3469 in 2024, 3395 in 2023, 3594 in 2022, 2515 in 2021, 2495 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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