Card Services – Solution Architect Lead – VP – Based in London recruitment
About Chase Card Services:
Chase Card Services is a key contributor to the JPMorgan Chase product platform, playing an integral role in the firm's powerful banking franchise.
Today's card industry is complex, and Chase Card Services has almost 91 million open credit-card accounts and more than $137 billion in managed loans.
Customers used Chase cards to meet more than $313 billion worth of their spending needs in 2010.
Chase continues to innovate despite a very difficult business environment, launching new products and services, such as Blueprint, Chase Sapphire and Ink from Chase, and earning a market leadership position in building loyalty and reward programs.
Chase also offers credit card programs with many of the world's best brands. Through its merchant acquiring business, Chase Paymentech Solutions, Chase is one of the leading processors of credit card payments.
As a Solutions Architect Lead, you willWork with other architects to ensure integration of software into existing environment.Work closely with development and architecture teams to understand infrastructure capacity and environment requirements for new developments.Develop and implement integrated IT solutions.Partner with peers to engage business aligned teams, and vendors in developing technology/product strategies and plans.Establish strategic guidelines that maximize value to the business.Advise on information systems activities such as infrastructure and architecture, applications development, and support, for one or more businesses.Provide high quality, cost effective services to clients within scope of responsibility.Oversee the business information systems activities while balancing technological and operational needs with financial control and communication needs.Establish and maintain working relationship with all businesses across Technology and technology team members.You will collaborate closely with clients in strategic planning and share accountability with them for benefit realization.As an individual contributor, work with little supervision and independently.Skills and Requirements:Experience working on Internationalized applicationsExperience working on large scale project integrating large complex systems .Experience with large web application developmentExtensive experience with evaluating vendor and other internally provided solutions to determine Buy vs. Build.You will be working with local and international business users.Experience working with offshore teams (QA in India, peers in US)Experience working with 3rd parties (Associations, Processors, etc)Create business alliances, lead joint ventures with vendors and focus on leveraging knowledge capital.Provide mentoring and leadership to the organization, client, and junior members of the
organization.Contribute to continuous improvement and promotes leverage of successful products and processes from across Technology.
Qualifications
Significant
in-depth knowledge of web technologies and messaging systems.Extensive previous work experience as a Solutions Architect for large scale applications.Previous experience
with J2EE / Spring / Hibernate / OracleComputer Science / Technical
Degree or equivalent work experiencePreferred SkillsKnowledge of Commercial Card banking business principalsStrong written and verbal communicationsIn-depth experience with external-facing webservicesIn-depth knowledge of security techniques for custom built softwareSolid Leadership experience in managing large cross-functional teams and the flexibility to influence people at a variety of levels internally and externallyDemonstrated ability to simultaneously launch and advise multiple IT projects, supporting a number of customers on time and within budgetTOGAF certifiedAbout J.P. Morgan Chase Co.J.P. Morgan is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $2.1 trillion and operations in more than 60 countries. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers, small business and commercial banking, financial transaction processing, asset management and private equity. Information about J.P. Morgan is available at www.jpmorganchase.com.
JPMorgan offers an exceptional benefits program and a highly competitive compensation package.
JPMorgan is an Equal Opportunity Employer.