Step into the role of a Principal Architect at JPMorganChase and become a driving force behind the development and adoption of cutting-edge, cloud-based technologies that power the firm's most critical AI and platform capabilities.
As a Principal Architect at JPMorganChase within the Enterprise Technology(Core Foundational Platforms) team, you provide deep expertise to enhance and evolve architecture platforms built on modern cloud-based technologies, while supporting the adoption of strategic global solutions at scale. You define the foundational platform architecture that underpins the firm's AI capabilities — ensuring they are abstracted, portable, and resilient enough to serve AI workloads wherever they run. Leveraging your advanced architecture capabilities, you collaborate with colleagues across the organization to translate AI ambitions into durable platform designs, so that model training, fine-tuning, and inference rest on consistent, well-governed data and compute foundations. In this role, you drive best-in-class outcomes by bridging technical vision with engineering execution across a globally distributed organization.
Job Responsibilities
- Advise cross-functional teams on technology selection, architectural abstractions, and integration patterns to achieve target-state architecture and drive continuous improvement across current technologies
- Define and document foundational platform architecture for neocloud, on-premises, and appliance-based environments, capturing target-state designs, trade-offs, and standardized deployment patterns
- Ensure platform alignment with the firm's firmwide control plane architecture, including abstraction of database and other services to enable deployment on-premises, in neoclouds, at the edge, or in high-risk locations
- Shepherd designs through all architectural review gates — permit to plan, permit to build, permit to deploy, and permit to operate — ensuring each checkpoint's evidence and approvals are satisfied before progressing
- Develop and maintain multi-year architecture roadmaps aligned with business strategy, AI platform priorities, and engineering capacity
- Specify new architectural patterns where necessary to enable emerging AI capabilities, and establish reuse-first, AI-enabled engineering patterns and governance across the software development lifecycle
- Apply enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate architecture analysis, roadmap development, and design decisioning, with human-in-the-loop validation and appropriate handling of sensitive data
- Develop secure, high-quality production code and review and debug code written by others, ensuring compliance with architecture standards and firm controls
- Ensure engineering alignment with architectural direction through structured reviews, design feedback, and prioritization of engineering tasks required to achieve architectural imperatives
- Document proper integration with firmwide services — including identity and access management — while satisfying all necessary security and compliance controls
- Serve as the team's go-to subject matter expert and contribute to the development of technical methods in specialized fields, in line with the latest product development methodologies
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on architecture concepts and 10+ years applied experience
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability across complex, large-scale environments
- Expertise in one or more programming languages with a strong foundation in writing, reviewing, and debugging production-grade code
- Deep knowledge of software, applications, and architecture, including advanced software architecture, application development, and technical processes within one or more disciplines such as cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, or mobile
- Demonstrated experience applying enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within architecture and engineering workflows, with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity
- Ability to evaluate and integrate AI-enabled capabilities into scalable platforms while meeting resiliency, security, and auditability requirements
- Experience applying expertise and new methods to determine solutions for complex architecture problems across one or more technical disciplines
- Experience leading a product as a product owner or product manager, with the ability to align technical direction to business outcomes
- Ability to present and effectively communicate complex architectural concepts to senior leaders and executives
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification in enterprise, solution, or software architecture — such as TOGAF, The Open Group Certified Architect (Open CA), SEI/Carnegie Mellon software architecture, or an equivalent cloud provider Professional or Expert Architect certification from AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Experience designing and operating AI/ML platform infrastructure, including model training, fine-tuning, and inference workloads across hybrid and multi-cloud environments
- Familiarity with edge computing, high-risk deployment environments, or regulated infrastructure patterns
- Experience establishing architectural governance frameworks, including design review processes, pattern libraries, and engineering standards at an enterprise scale
- Background in platform engineering or developer experience tooling, with a focus on enabling engineering velocity through reusable, well-governed foundations
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 on architecture concepts
- 10+ years applied experience
- Hands-on experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability across large-scale environments
- Expertise in one or more programming languages with ability to write, review, and debug production-grade code
- Deep knowledge of software, applications, and advanced software architecture across cloud, AI/ML, or related disciplines
- Experience applying enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within architecture and engineering workflows with data sensitivity awareness
- Ability to evaluate and integrate AI-enabled capabilities into scalable, resilient, and auditable platforms
- Experience determining solutions for complex architecture problems across technical disciplines
- Experience leading a product as a product owner or product manager
- Ability to present and communicate complex architectural concepts to senior leaders and executives
- Design, documentation, and governance experience across architecture review gates and control plane alignment
- Preferred: TOGAF, Open CA, SEI/Carnegie Mellon software architecture, or cloud provider Professional/Expert Architect certifications (AWS/Azure/Google)
- Preferred: Experience designing and operating AI/ML platform infrastructure for training, fine-tuning, and inference across hybrid and multi-cloud
- Preferred: Familiarity with edge computing, high-risk deployment environments, or regulated infrastructure patterns
- Preferred: Experience establishing architectural governance frameworks, pattern libraries, and enterprise engineering standards
- Preferred: Background in platform engineering or developer experience tooling to enable engineering velocity
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, dental, vision, and mental-health coverage are broad, with wellness incentives, on-site or virtual care, and an EAP offering coaching and counseling. Plan materials emphasize accessible options, including multiple medical choices and tools to manage costs.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave extends up to 16 weeks for all parents, supplemented by paid Critical Caregiver Leave. Family resources include backup childcare via Bright Horizons, lactation support and milk-shipping, family-building assistance, and even a free five-month SNOO rental for newborns.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a 401(k) with an annual company match and automatic pay credits for most employees, with a legacy pension available to earlier hires. An Employee Stock Purchase Plan at a 5% discount further supports long-term savings.
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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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