Senior Principal Architect - Executive Director

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Financial Services
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The Role
Leads architecture for JPMorgan Chase’s enterprise cloud platform across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Advises on workload placement, evaluates emerging cloud technologies, designs adoption tooling, and establishes architecture governance and platform guardrails. Develops and reviews production code, guides engineering teams, and promotes secure cloud-native practices. The role also governs AI-assisted and agentic architecture workflows, emphasizing human validation, data sensitivity, auditability, resiliency, and security.
Summary Generated by Built In
You’re a pro who wants to influence the future of technical architecture and our team is looking for people like you. 
The Cloud Foundational Services (CFS) Product Line, a part of Infrastructure Platforms, acts as the focal point across all of JPMC's cloud capabilities. It provides the central suite of tools and APIs that manage access to public cloud capabilities in a secure and compliant manner, defines the developer experience to bind cloud resources into a coherent ecosystem and, in partnership with both Enterprise Technology Product Lines and Lines of Business, drives the adoption and best practices for the implementation of cloud capabilities.
As a Senior Lead Architect at JPMorgan Chase within the Cloud Foundational Services, you are an integral part of a team that works to develop high-quality architecture solutions for the Atlas enterprise cloud platform.  This role will focus on providing architectural guidance and designing tooling to support efficient line-of-business adoption of public cloud offerings including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

Job responsibilities 

  • Guides architectural decisions for the JPMC enterprise cloud platform and advise tenant applications on effective workload placement across AWS, Azure and GCP
  • Works across partner teams and lines of business to make the enterprise platform the best possible cloud platform for JP Morgan and a leading platform in the financial services industry
  • Evaluates and assesses new AWS, Azure and GCP cloud technologies in the light of the evolving requirements of lines of business as they grow, providing feedback and proposing improvements to architecture governance practices
  • Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors and serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in optimal workload placement across public clouds 
  • Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
  • Drives decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
  • Leads reuse-first adoption of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate architecture analysis, option evaluation, and delivery of strategic global solutions, with human-in-the-loop validation and appropriate handling of sensitive data
  • Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
  • Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
  • Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
  • Establishes portfolio-level guardrails for AI-assisted and agentic workflows used in architecture and engineering governance, including traceability/auditability and control expectations aligned to resiliency and security standards

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Strong solutions architecture experience across public clouds to support advising on workload placement and designing tools that streamline this process
  • Commercial public cloud native software experience
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, Google Cloud Certified Cloud Digital Leader,  Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
  • Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability with strong coding skills in Python or Golang and practical experience in using agentic coding tools
  • Advanced knowledge of software architecture, applications, and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge of cloud native principles
  • Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
  • Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to select or recommend the best solutions for the future state architecture
  • Comfortable working across functional teams from different lines of business from engineers, architects to product managers and potentially remote.
  • Comfortable authoring technical documentation covering design and architecture content
  • Demonstrated experience leading safe adoption of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment across architecture workflows, including validation practices and awareness of data sensitivity
  • Ability to evaluate and govern AI-enabled architectural patterns (including agentic workflows) with clear control boundaries, auditability, and human approval checkpoints aligned to resiliency and security expectations

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills 

  • Solution Architect or Developer certifications  or higher professional certification across AWS, Azure or GCP
  • Ideally familiarity and experience with architecture modelling tools including FinOS CALM
  • Good experience with Kubernetes, using CLI, developing and deploying applications and leveraging service mesh technologies
  • Comfortable with common identity and access based standards including SAML and OIDC and approaches including ABAC

 

About UsJ.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 TeamOur professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.

Skills Required

  • Strong solutions architecture experience across public clouds, including workload placement and tooling design
  • Commercial public cloud native software experience
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • Google Cloud Certified Cloud Digital Leader
  • Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals
  • Hands-on experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
  • Strong coding skills in Python or Golang
  • Practical experience using agentic coding tools
  • Advanced knowledge of software architecture, applications, technical processes, and cloud-native principles
  • Ability to independently solve design and functionality problems with little to no oversight
  • Ability to evaluate emerging technologies and recommend future-state architecture solutions
  • Experience collaborating across functional teams, lines of business, engineers, architects, and product managers
  • Experience authoring technical design and architecture documentation
  • Experience leading safe adoption of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities in architecture workflows
  • Ability to govern AI-enabled architectural patterns and agentic workflows with controls, auditability, and human approval checkpoints
  • Solution Architect or Developer certification, or higher professional certification, across AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Familiarity with architecture modeling tools, including FinOS CALM
  • Experience with Kubernetes, CLI usage, application development and deployment, and service mesh technologies
  • Familiarity with SAML and OIDC identity standards and ABAC approaches

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.

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
289,097 Employees
Year Founded: 1799

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.

Why Work With Us

Our technologists work on a diverse range of solutions that include strategic technology initiatives, big data, mobile, electronic payments, machine learning, cybersecurity, enterprise cloud development, and other state-of-the-art technologies.

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