Cloud Solutions Architect – Exec Director

J.P. Morgan’s Corporate & Investment Bank (CIB) is a global leader across banking, markets and investor services. The world’s most important corporations, governments and institutions entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. With $18 trillion of assets under custody and $393 billion in deposits, the Corporate & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.
CIB has a strong belief that the future of our infrastructure is on cloud. As part of this vision it has already begun building the ‘bridge’ to access public cloud in addition to a private cloud for specific workflows. Significant engineering challenges remain in 1) driving the architecture of our public cloud and enabling the best possible developer experience allowing teams to focus on building world class financial applications 2) assisting our developers migrate existing to the cloud and build new applications in a cloud native way.
To assist in both these challenges CIB has established a Cloud Engineering function with responsibility for leading these architecture activities in close partnership with the developer community. Within this small organization we require a number of experienced people to be our CIB Cloud Lead Engineers. This is a highly visible role and will lead to significant transformation across the CIB.
 
The role of the Lead Cloud Engineer is to represent CIB on ensuring our public and private cloud capability evolves to meets our needs, and working with the developer community on designing applications to leverage cloud and maximize benefits.  
 
Success for this role is defined by a simple criteria: what business value did we enable via cloud adoption, and did we advance the quality/stability/control of our environment and the developer efficiency.
Primary Responsibilities
Cloud Architecture:
Represent CIB to ensure cloud capabilities meets our goals
Be a significant contributor to cloud strategy and reference architecture for JPMC
Engage with the developer community to understand requirements and drive these to solutions:
Work with Cloud Services team to ensure private and public cloud offerings meet our needs, including prioritizing and validating new cloud services, technologies and integration patterns
Work with Security and Control teams to elegantly solve control requirements
Work with Chief Development Office on Software Delivery Modernisation tools, SDLC automation, and integration with cloud platform
Work with Production Management to ensure operational mechanisms are in place, with high level of automation, and alignment with DevOps maturity
Solutions will be a combination of enabling cloud provider reference architectures/capabilities, amending them or designing custom solutions where required 
Cloud Adoption Engineering:
Ensure alignment of cloud adoptions with the value propositions and our capabilities, i.e. are we migrating the right applications/workloads at the right time to maximize benefits
Work with application lead engineers to solve the problem of how to migrate existing applications to cloud (make cloud friendly), and for new applications how to design them directly onto the cloud
Balance engineering factors and business value and time horizons
Work on design with teams and crisply and quickly articulate architecture for other stakeholders
Identify missing cloud features and any other constraints and work to get them enabled/built
Design solutions to meet application control requirements
Assist in designing workflow and developer SDLC/automation to gain the most from cloud
Support and transfer cloud engineering expertise to developersBachelor/Masters in computer science/computer/electrical engineering/maths/physics
Must have been a software engineer at some point in career and still working at a detailed level
Hands on experience with one of the public clouds: AWS, Google or Azure
Real experience of delivery of a significant cloud adoption and understands the challenges involved
Deep and rapidly growing experience with cloud architectures: security, availability, microservices, consumption based billing, designs for scalability
Comfortable leading Cloud application design process with senior design authorities, and being able to influence senior level platform owners
Experience with solution architecture/documenting software architectures
Understanding of DevOps principles, tools and the intersection with cloud architecture
Hands-on, applied and delivery focused
Finance experience a bonus, however non-finance background with cloud engineering experience is welcomed  
 
Our Corporate & Investment Bank relies on innovators like you to build and maintain the technology that helps us safely service the world’s important corporations, governments and institutions. You’ll develop solutions for a bank entrusted with holding $18 trillion of assets and $393 billion in deposits.  CIB provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk, and extends liquidity in markets spanning over 100 countries around the world.
When you work at JPMorgan Chase & Co., you’re not just working at a global financial institution. You’re an integral part of one of the world’s biggest tech companies. In 14 technology hubs worldwide, our team of 40,000+ technologists design, build and deploy everything from enterprise technology initiatives to big data and mobile solutions, as well as innovations in electronic payments, cybersecurity, machine learning, and cloud development. Our $9.5B+ annual investment in technology enables us to hire people to create innovative solutions that will not only transform the financial services industry, but also change the world. 
At JPMorgan Chase & Co. we value the unique skills of every employee, and we’re building a technology organization that thrives on diversity.  We encourage professional growth and career development, and offer competitive benefits and compensation.  If you’re looking to build your career as part of a global technology team tackling big challenges that impact the lives of people and companies all around the world, we want to meet you. 
 
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