Join JPMorganChase and bring your architectural vision to life on a global stage, where your expertise will directly shape the technology foundation that powers one of the world's most influential financial institutions. Here, you'll have the opportunity to influence target state architecture, drive strategic decisions, and leave a lasting impact across the firm and the communities we serve.
As a Senior Principal Architect at JPMorganChase within Enterprise Technology (Infrastructure Platforms), you provide specialized expertise to influence the target state architecture and strategy. You work across teams to implement and advance the adoption of complex strategic global solutions that give JPMorganChase a competitive advantage.
Job responsibilities
- Advise and lead on strategy and development of multiple products, applications, and technologies across a portfolio
- Design, govern, and oversee the implementation of robust, scalable, and efficient architectural solutions for cross-domain business problems, driving adoption and reuse of preferred resources, processes, and technology across domains and portfolios
- Lead 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
- Translate highly complex technical issues, trends, and approaches to leadership to drive the firm's innovation and enable leaders to make strategic, well-informed decisions about target state architecture
- Act as a liaison between Infrastructure Platform and Line of Business teams to ensure alignment and understanding
- Drive adoption and implementation of technical methods in specialized fields in line with the latest product development methodologies, creating durable, reusable software frameworks that improve velocity and quality of output across teams and functions
- Establish and lead an architecture governance body
- Communicate effectively to group leadership, management, and teams throughout the company
- Establish 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
- Formal training and multiple professional-level certifications in AWS (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional) and Google Cloud (e.g., GCP Professional Cloud Architect)
- 10+ years of applied experience with at least 5 years in a Senior, Lead, or Principal Architect role, repeatedly directing significantly large and complex architecture initiatives, developing capabilities that typically involve different stakeholders, multiple products and geographies, many solution varieties, highly regulated environments, and business transformations at mass scale
- Practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Expertise in one or more programming languages, applications, and architecture disciplines
- 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
- Demonstrated prior experience influencing across functions and teams to deliver modern architecture
- Experience applying expertise and new methods to determine solutions for complex architecture problems across various technical disciplines
- Extensive practical cloud-native experience
- Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to recommend the best technology solutions and approaches to achieve the future state architecture
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Banking and financial services experience or relevant technology domain experience
- Experience with governance, risk, regulatory, and compliance frameworks
- Skills and knowledge spanning multiple architecture domains (e.g., Business Architecture, Application/Solution Architecture, Technical/Infrastructure Architecture, and Information/Data Architecture)
- Deep hands-on expertise across hybrid multi-cloud environments: on-premise, AWS, and/or GCP/Azure
- Working fluency in the AWS Well-Architected Framework and its application to safety- and payment-adjacent workloads
- Proven leadership ability to inspire teams toward common goals
About Us
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 and multiple professional-level certifications in AWS, including AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional or equivalent.
- Formal training and multiple professional-level certifications in Google Cloud, including GCP Professional Cloud Architect or equivalent.
- 10 or more years of applied experience, including at least 5 years in a Senior, Lead, or Principal Architect role.
- Experience directing large and complex architecture initiatives involving multiple stakeholders, products, geographies, solution varieties, regulated environments, and business transformations.
- Practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
- Expertise in one or more programming languages, applications, and architecture disciplines.
- Experience leading safe adoption of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities in architecture workflows, including validation practices and sensitive-data awareness.
- Experience evaluating and governing AI-enabled architectural patterns, including agentic workflows, control boundaries, auditability, and human approval checkpoints.
- Experience influencing across functions and teams to deliver modern architecture.
- Experience solving complex architecture problems across multiple technical disciplines.
- Extensive practical cloud-native experience.
- Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies and recommend solutions for future-state architecture.
- Banking and financial services experience or relevant technology domain experience.
- Experience with governance, risk, regulatory, and compliance frameworks.
- Knowledge spanning business, application or solution, technical or infrastructure, and information or data architecture domains.
- Hands-on expertise across hybrid multi-cloud environments, including on-premises, AWS, and/or GCP or Azure.
- Working fluency in the AWS Well-Architected Framework and its application to safety- and payment-adjacent workloads.
- Proven leadership ability to inspire teams toward common goals.
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.
JPMorganChase Insights
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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