If you are excited about shaping the future of technology and driving meaningful business impact in financial services, this role offers the opportunity to influence architecture decisions at scale. You will partner across product and engineering teams to develop high-quality solutions that strengthen customer and employee experiences while meeting high standards for resiliency and security.
As a Principal Architect at JPMorganChase within Corporate Sector (Compliance Digital Experience), you are an integral part of a team that delivers architecture solutions across software applications and platforms. You drive significant business impact by shaping target-state architecture, guiding technology strategy, and improving engineering practices across the product area. You will work closely with stakeholders to ensure solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned to enterprise standards.
Job responsibilities
- Represent a product area in architecture governance forums, recommending improvements to standards and decision-making practices
- Provide technical guidance and direction to technology teams and partners to accelerate delivery and strengthen solution quality
- Apply approved AI capabilities to speed architecture analysis and decisioning, with human-in-the-loop validation and appropriate handling of sensitive data
- Evaluate current and emerging technologies against enterprise standards and frameworks, influencing adoption of fit-for-purpose solutions
- Drive architecture decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and operational processes
- Design and review secure, high-quality code and implementation approaches, supporting troubleshooting and quality improvements across teams
- Serve as a subject matter expert who contributes to engineering communities through thought leadership and modern architecture practices
- Establish reuse-first, AI-enabled engineering patterns across the software development life cycle (SDLC) and toolchain, ensuring traceability, resiliency, and security controls
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Formal training or certification on architecture concepts and 10+ years applied experience
- Hands-on experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced proficiency in one or more programming languages and deep expertise in software architecture, applications, and technical processes in one or more domains (for example: cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, or mobile)
- Demonstrated experience applying approved AI capabilities within architecture and engineering workflows, with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity
- Ability to integrate AI-enabled capabilities into enterprise-grade architectures while meeting resiliency, security, and audit requirements
- Ability to solve design and functionality challenges independently with minimal oversight
- Strong judgment and communication skills to influence technical direction across teams and stakeholders
Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Experience leading architecture modernization, platform transformation, or cloud adoption initiatives
- Financial services and large-scale enterprise technology experience
- Experience establishing architecture standards, governance practices, and reusable enterprise patterns
We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.
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.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans
Skills Required
- Formal training or certification in architecture concepts
- 10+ years of applied experience
- Hands-on experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced proficiency in one or more programming languages
- Deep expertise in software architecture, applications, and technical processes
- Experience applying approved AI capabilities within architecture and engineering workflows
- Ability to integrate AI-enabled capabilities into enterprise-grade architectures while meeting resiliency, security, and audit requirements
- Ability to solve design and functionality challenges independently with minimal oversight
- Strong judgment and communication skills to influence technical direction
- Experience leading architecture modernization, platform transformation, or cloud adoption initiatives
- Financial services and large-scale enterprise technology experience
- Experience establishing architecture standards, governance practices, and reusable enterprise patterns
JPMorganChase Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about JPMorganChase and has not been reviewed or approved by JPMorganChase.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical coverage and wellness resources, including mental-health support and wellness incentives, are described as comprehensive and accessible; feedback suggests income-based contributions help keep care affordable.
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Retirement Support — A dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match up to 5% of eligible pay, plus additional employer contributions in some cases, is highlighted as a strong pillar of financial security. Feedback suggests this structure is a notable advantage of the total rewards package.
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Parental & Family Support — Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave for all parents, along with fertility, adoption, surrogacy, childcare, and family-support resources, signals a family-forward approach. Feedback suggests these programs are a standout feature of the package.
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What We Do
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $3.7 trillion and operations worldwide. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small businesses, commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase & Co. serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Technology fuels every aspect of our company and is at the heart of everything we do. With over 50,000 technologists globally and an annual tech spend of $12 billion, we are dedicated to improving the design, analytics, development, coding, testing and application programming that goes into creating high quality software and new products. Learn more about technology at our firm, explore resources from our Distinguished Engineers, AI & ML researchers, and other experts; access the latest episode of our TechTrends podcast, and more at www.jpmorgan.com/technology. Information about JPMorgan Chase & Co. is available at www.jpmorganchase.com. ©2023 JPMorgan Chase & Co. All rights reserved. JPMorgan Chase is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans.
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