Information Architect III - CIB - Associate London

Job Description
Progress your career in Information Architecture as an Information Architect, delivering and promoting standards and tools for Data Management at JPMorgan Chase.
As an Information Architect at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Investment Bank Information Architecture team, you will have the opportunity to progress your career in Information Architecture. You will play a crucial role in delivering, maintaining, and promoting the adoption of standards, components, processes, and tools that support the broader function of Data Management. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with Corporate Investment Bank Technology, Global Technology, and other Lines of Business to develop contemporary and innovative engineering methods.
Job Responsibilities

• Create and maintain accurate, complete, and consistent governed Data Models with lineage and metadata to facilitate traceability to other metadata classification such as Data Concepts.
• Collaborate to create, maintain, govern, and use Controlled Vocabularies and Data Sourcing Contracts with Business Partners and the Chief Data Office.
• Engage with Software Development teams to determine their requirements for Model Engineering solutions and build prototypes and pilots to explore enhancements and new ways of working.
• Actively engage with development teams to use, develop, and improve Information Architecture standards, tools, and processes as part of the development process.
• Incrementally standardize and simplify the Data and Information Architecture through the rationalization and reduction of models, interfaces, and databases.
• Deliver to firm-wide, CIB, and sub-LOBs Data Policy and Standards (such as the System of Record and Authoritative Data Sourcing registration and JPMC Business Data Taxonomy).
• Contribute towards the incremental delivery of the Data Strategy by incrementally moving applications towards strategic data sourcing and standardization of metadata and tooling.
• Standardize and innovate Operational and Analytical Data Management in accordance with Reference Architectures and Operating Models.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• An interest and some exposure to Software Engineering concepts and development.
• An interest and some exposure to Data Modelling and Architecture tools such as ERwin, Power Designer, and/or Magic Draw or wider use of UML tools or IDEs that integrate modeling tools such as Eclipse.
• An interest in data and an appreciation of the value it can bring to an organization if properly understood, organized, and governed.
• Knowledge of some Data Management technologies such as Relational and Columnar Databases, and/or Data Integration (ETL) or API development.
• Knowledge of some Data Formats such as JSON, XML, and binary formats such as Avro or Google Protocol Buffers.
• A desire to collaborate with business and technical teams to understand, translate, review, and playback requirements and collaborate to develop Model Engineering solutions.
• Exposure to working with data sets through tools like SQL, JavaScript, or Python.
• Experience communicating unambiguously through multiple channels such as Presentations, Word Documents, workshops, and meetings.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Use of programming language(s).
• Knowledge of core Information Architecture capabilities such as Reference Data Management, Data Quality, Metadata Management, Data Taxonomy and Classification, and Security and Protection.
• An interest in Financial Services, specifically Wholesale and Investment Banking.
• An interest in other Data Standards (preferably Financial) such as SWIFT, FIX, or FpML.

Capabilities

• A willingness to bring an outside perspective to the team, ask questions, and learn from the breadth and depth of experience of the current IA team.
• A "growth mindset," willing to take on challenges.
• The flexibility to switch between concurrent project assignments.
• An ability to envisage and compare potential solutions prior to implementation.

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
J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.